Interview question: Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String
Problem
You are given a string s
and a substring sub
. Your task is to find the index of the first occurrence of sub
in s
. If sub
is not a substring of s
, return -1.
Example 1
Input: s = "hello world", sub = "l"
Result: 2
Example 2
Input: s = "abcdefg", sub = "x"
Result: -1
Example 3
Input: s = "mississippi", sub = "iss"
Result: 1