Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings.
If there is no common prefix, return an empty string ""
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Example 1:
Input: ["flower","flow","flight"] Output: "fl"
Example 2:
Input: ["dog","racecar","car"] Output: "" Explanation: There is no common prefix among the input strings.
Note:
All given inputs are in lowercase letters a-z
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flow
flower
flight
1 class Solution: 2 def longestCommonPrefix(self, strs): 3 """ 4 :type strs: List[str] 5 :rtype: str 6 """ 7 if strs==[]: 8 return "" 9 shortstr = min(strs,key=len) 10 for i,char in enumerate(shortstr): 11 for other in strs: 12 if other[i]!=char: 13 return shortstr[:i] 14 return shortstr