From: Denis Hennessy <denis@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T09:18:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Longest Repeated Substring (#153)

On 18 Jan 2008, at 23:05, ara.t.howard wrote:

>> And a second:
>> "aaaaaa" should give "aaa"
>>
>> Right?
>
> i would think that
>
> 'aaaaaa'.longest_repeating_substring #=> 'aaaaa'
>
> the quiz did not say that the two strings could not overlap.
>
> is this correct james?

Actually the spec says "Repeated substrings may not overlap." so the  
correct answer for "aaaaaa" should be "aaa".

/dh