- Difficulty: Easy
- Tags: LeetCode, Easy, Two Pointers, String, String Matching, leetcode-28
Problem
Given two strings needle
and haystack
, return the index of the first occurrence of needle
in haystack
, or -1
if needle
is not part of haystack
.
Example 1:
Input: haystack = "sadbutsad", needle = "sad" Output: 0 Explanation: "sad" occurs at index 0 and 6. The first occurrence is at index 0, so we return 0.
Example 2:
Input: haystack = "leetcode", needle = "leeto" Output: -1 Explanation: "leeto" did not occur in "leetcode", so we return -1.
Constraints:
1 <= haystack.length, needle.length <= 104
haystack
andneedle
consist of only lowercase English characters.