String Prefixes
March 8, 2016
Two strings have a common prefix that consists of the longest prefix of the strings that is the same. For instance, the strings “I love cats” and “I love dogs” have the common prefix “I love ” (including a trailing space at the end of love, which doesn’t appear properly in some browsers).
Your task is to write a program that finds the common prefix of a list of strings (possibly more than two strings). When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 