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Given a string s, what is the fastest method to generate a set of all its unique substrings?
Example: for str = "aba" we would get substrs={"a", "b", "ab", "ba", "aba"}.
The naive algorithm would be to traverse the entire string generating substrings in length 1..n in each iteration, yielding an O(n^2) upper bound.
Is a better bound possible?
(this is technically homework, so pointers-only are welcome as well)
As other posters have said, there are potentially O(n^2) substrings for a given string, so printing them out cannot be done faster than that. However there exists an efficient representation of the set that can be constructed in linear time: the suffix tree.