Longest Palindromic Substring
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”
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-start);
}
private int expandAroundCenter(String s, int left, int right)
{
int L = left, R = right;
while (L >= 0 && R < s.Length && s[L] == s[R])
{
L--;
R++;
}
return R - L - 1;
}