The longest common substring (LCS) identification has many applications in Pattern matching, Automata Theory, Bioinformatics, especially in DNA arrangement examination. The LCS issue looks for the ...

longest common substring present in both of them. A substring is Example: "abcdef" and "xabded" have two longest common substrings, "ab" or "de". Therefore, algorithm should return any one of them.

the Longest-common-Subsequence longest common substring problem is to find the longest string (or strings) that is a substring (or are substrings) of two or more strings.