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Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

Understand and implement the sliding window technique to locate the first occurrence of a substring in a larger string. This lesson helps you grasp efficient substring search methods and apply them to coding interview problems with given constraints and examples.

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Given two strings haystack and needle, return the index of the first occurrence of needle within haystack. If needle does not exist as a substring of haystack, return 1-1 ...