• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar

GoHired

Interview Questions asked in Google, Microsoft, Amazon

Join WeekEnd Online Batch from 4-April-2020 on How to Crack Coding Interview in Just 10 Weeks : Fees just 20,000 INR

  • Home
  • Best Java Books
  • Algorithm
  • Internship
  • Certificates
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Array
  • Stack
  • Queue
  • LinkedList
  • DP
  • Strings
  • Tree
  • Mathametical
  • Puzzles
  • Graph

Check a String is SUBSEQUENCE of another String Find Minimum length for that ( DNA Matching )

August 12, 2014 by Dhaval Dave

Main DNA sequence(a string) is given (let say strDNA) and another string to search for(let say strPAT).
You have to find the minimum length window in strDNA where strPAT is subsequence.


Example :
strDNA = “BANANA”
strPAT = “ANNA”

Here ANNA is sub-sequence of BANANA (click sub-sequence to understand sub-sequence).
Length is 5 ANANA contains ANNA.

There are several ways to check for occurrence of string as subsequence of another string.
Through DP we can find more efficient answer for minimum length.
Considering simple case I have written code to check whether strPAT is subsequence of strDNA or not.

Thanks to Dhaval for suggesting this approach and Article

#include <stdio.h> 
main() { 
    char *x,*y;
    int count=0;
    int f=0;
    char a[]=”anna”;
    char b[]=”banana”;
x=a; y=b;
        while(*y){
           if(*x==*y){
               x++;
               f=1;
           }
           if(f==1)count++;
           *y++;
        }
if (*x!=’’) 
    printf(“n false (%s)n”,x);
else
    printf(“ntrue %dn”,count);

 }

You Can Check code at http://ideone.com/y4P2oI

Similar Articles

Filed Under: Amazon Interview Question, Flipkart Interview Questions, Interview Questions, problem Tagged With: Array, Dynamic Programming, string

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

Join WeekEnd Online/Offline Batch from 4-April-2020 on How to Crack Coding Interview in Just 10 Weeks : Fees just 20,000 INR

Join WeekEnd Online/Offline Batch from 4-April-2020

WhatsApp us

Secondary Sidebar

Custom Search

  • How I cracked AMAZON
  • LeetCode
  • Adobe
  • Amazon
  • Facebook
  • Microsoft
  • Hacker Earth
  • CSE Interview

Top Rated Questions

Find Nearest Minimum number in left side in O(n)

‘N’ Story Building, with 1,2,3 steps how many ways can a person reach top of building.

Python String and numbers

Print vertical sum of all the axis in the given binary tree

LeetCode : Word Search

Maximum occurred Smallest integer in n ranges

Add Sub Multiply very large number stored as string

25 horses 5 tracks Find 3 fastest puzzle

Common Ancestor in a Binary Tree or Binary Search Tree

robot standing at first cell of an M*N matrix. It can move only in two directions, right and down. In how many ways, it can reach to the last cell i.e. (M, N) Code it

SAP Interview Questions

Code Chef PRGIFT Solution

Amazon Interview On-Campus For Internship – 1

Leetcode: Edit Distance

Maximum difference between two elements s.t larger element appears after the smaller number

Find if a binary tree is height balanced ?

Leetcode: Merge Intervals

C Program for TAIL command of UNIX

Advanced SQL Injection

Search element in a matrix with all rows and columns in sorted order

Reverse a Linked List in groups of given size

System Design: Designing a LLD for Hotel Booking

Check if an array has duplicate numbers in O(n) time and O(1) space

How Radix sort works

Edit Distance ( Dynamic Programming )

Minimum insertions to form a palindrome

Print Power Set of a Set

SAP Off Campus Hiring_ March 2015 Analytical Aptitude

Python Dictionaries

Generate next palindrome number

Copyright © 2026 · Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in