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LeetCode 28, Easy. Topics: Two Pointers, String, String Matching. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 18 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given two strings needle and haystack, return the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle is not part of haystack.

Examples

Constraints

  • 1 <= haystack.length, needle.length <= 10^4
  • haystack and needle consist of only lowercase English characters.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

Tags

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Last modified on September 7, 2026