Longest Palindromic Substring

最长回文字串

题目

Given a string s, find the longest palindromic substring in s. You may assume that the maximum length of s is 1000.

Example 1:

Input: “babad”
Output: “bab”
Note: “aba” is also a valid answer.
Example 2:

Input: “cbbd”
Output: “bb”

解析重点

1.最长回文字串就是最长的对称字串，那么对于一个字符串，这样的对称中心有几个呢，有2n-1个，以字母为对称中心和以字母间隙为对称中心，
那么我们就可以以对称中心为基础进行搜索。

java代码

class Solution {
    public String longestPalindrome(String s) {
    if (s == null || s.length() < 1) return "";
    int start = 0, end = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
        int len1 = expandAroundCenter(s, i, i);
        int len2 = expandAroundCenter(s, i, i + 1);
        int len = Math.max(len1, len2);
        if (len > end - start) {
            start = i - (len - 1) / 2;
            end = i + len / 2;
        }
    }
    return s.substring(start, end + 1);
}

private int expandAroundCenter(String s, int left, int right) {
    int L = left, R = right;
    while (L >= 0 && R < s.length() && s.charAt(L) == s.charAt(R)) {
        L--;
        R++;
    }
    return R - L - 1;
}
}