Find common substrings between two character variables

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Here’s a CRAN package for that:

library(qualV)

sapply(seq_along(a), function(i)
    paste(LCS(strsplit(a[i], '')[[1]], strsplit(b[i], '')[[1]])$LCS,
          collapse = ""))

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