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Longest Palindromic Substring

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Given a string s, return the longest palindromicsubstringin s.

public String longestPalindrome(String s) {
  int n = s.length();
  String res = null;
    
  boolean[][] dp = new boolean[n][n];
    
  for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    for (int j = i; j < n; j++) {
      dp[i][j] = s.charAt(i) == s.charAt(j) && (j - i < 3 || dp[i + 1][j - 1]);
            
      if (dp[i][j] && (res == null || j - i + 1 > res.length())) {
        res = s.substring(i, j + 1);
      }
    }
  }
    
  return res;
}

Posted by Jamie Meyer 21 days ago