Edit: I'm sorry for mistake. My pity that I overseen that using my variable inside countit(x, q{}) is big mistake. This string is evaluated inside Benchmark module and @str was empty there. This solution is not as fast as I presented. See correction below. I'm sorry again.
Perl can be fast:
use strict;
use warnings;
package LCP;
sub LCP {
return '' unless @_;
return $_[0] if @_ == 1;
my $i = 0;
my $first = shift;
my $min_length = length($first);
foreach (@_) {
$min_length = length($_) if length($_) < $min_length;
}
INDEX: foreach my $ch ( split //, $first ) {
last INDEX unless $i < $min_length;
foreach my $string (@_) {
last INDEX if substr($string, $i, 1) ne $ch;
}
}
continue { $i++ }
return substr $first, 0, $i;
}
# Roy's implementation
sub LCP2 {
return '' unless @_;
my $prefix = shift;
for (@_) {
chop $prefix while (! /^\Q$prefix\E/);
}
return $prefix;
}
1;
Test suite:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
Test::LCP->runtests;
package Test::LCP;
use base 'Test::Class';
use Test::More;
use Benchmark qw(:all :hireswallclock);
sub test_use : Test(startup => 1) {
use_ok('LCP');
}
sub test_lcp : Test(6) {
is( LCP::LCP(), '', 'Without parameters' );
is( LCP::LCP('abc'), 'abc', 'One parameter' );
is( LCP::LCP( 'abc', 'xyz' ), '', 'None of common prefix' );
is( LCP::LCP( 'abcdefgh', ('abcdefgh') x 15, 'abcdxyz' ),
'abcd', 'Some common prefix' );
my @str = map { chomp; $_ } <DATA>;
is( LCP::LCP(@str),
'file:///home/gms8994/Music/', 'Test data prefix' );
is( LCP::LCP2(@str),
'file:///home/gms8994/Music/', 'Test data prefix by LCP2' );
my $t = countit( 1, sub{LCP::LCP(@str)} );
diag("LCP: ${\($t->iters)} iterations took ${\(timestr($t
answered 2009-02-01T09:56:21.890