Finding substring of a word found in joining a string from another string

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Published on 2012-11-20T10:56:29Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 11:01 UTC
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Given a list of words, L, that are all the same length, and a string, S, find the starting position of the substring of S that is a concatenation of each word in L exactly once and without any intervening characters. This substring will occur exactly once in S.

Example:

L: "fooo", "barr", "wing", "ding", "wing"
S: "lingmindraboofooowingdingbarrwingmonkeypoundcake"
               Word found in joining L and also found in S: "fooowingdingbarrwing"
Answer: 13



L: "mon", "key"
S: "monkey
                      Word found in joining L and also found in S: "monkey
Answer: 0



L: "a", "b", "c", "d", "e"
S: "abcdfecdba"
                           Word found in joining L and also found in S: "ecdba
Answer: 5

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