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LeetCode 459, Easy. Topics: String, String Matching. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 28 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

Given a string s, check if it can be constructed by taking a substring of it and appending multiple copies of the substring together.

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Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^4
  • s consists of lowercase English letters.

Solution

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

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026