Problem 2469. Cat, Meowcat and Concatenation

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Appears in Strings III

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Input is a cell array containing several strings. Find the largest continuous sub-string common to all strings. All strings are in lower case and unique answer exists.
Example:
in = {'cat','meowcat','concatenation'};
out = 'cat';

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 26 Aug 2020

This problem requires more test cases. My solution as many others would fail for a case in which the searched substring is not ordered.

Dyuman Joshi on 2 May 2022

Rafael, If I am not misunderstanding you, the problem asks for a continuous sub-string.

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