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Java Program for Minimum rotations required to get the same string

Given a string, we need to find the minimum number of rotations required to get the same string. Examples:

Input : s = “geeks”
Output : 5

Input : s = “aaaa”
Output : 1

The idea is based on below post. A Program to check if strings are rotations of each other or not Step 1 : Initialize result = 0 (Here result is count of rotations) Step 2 : Take a temporary string equals to original string concatenated with itself. Step 3 : Now take the substring of temporary string of size same as original string starting from second character (or index 1). Step 4 : Increase the count. Step 5 : Check whether the substring becomes equal to original string. If yes, then break the loop. Else go to step 2 and repeat it from the next index. 

Java




// Java program to determine minimum number
// of rotations required to yield same
// string.
 
import java.util.*;
 
class GFG
{
    // Returns count of rotations to get the
    // same string back.
    static int findRotations(String str)
    {
        // tmp is the concatenated string.
        String tmp = str + str;
        int n = str.length();
     
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
        {
     
            // substring from i index of original
            // string size.
             
            String substring = tmp.substring(
                      i, i+str.length());
     
            // if substring matches with original string
            // then we will come out of the loop.
            if (str.equals(substring))
                return i;
        }
        return n;
    }
 
    // Driver Method
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
            String str = "aaaa";
        System.out.println(findRotations(str));
    }
}
/* This code is contributed by Mr. Somesh Awasthi */


Output: 

3

Time Complexity: O(n2) Please refer complete article on Minimum rotations required to get the same string for more details!
Auxiliary Space: O(n), The extra space is used to store the copied string in tmp variable.

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