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Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

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StringTwo Pointers

Given two strings s (haystack) and t (needle), return the index of the first occurrence of t in s, or -1 if not present.

Example 1

Input:  s = "sadbutsad", t = "sad"
Output: 0

Example 2

Input:  s = "leetcode", t = "leeto"
Output: -1

Constraints

  • 1 <= s.length, t.length <= 10^4
  • Both consist of lowercase English letters.
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