Description
Problem H: Partitioning by Palindromes
We say a sequence of characters is a palindrome if it is the same written forwards and backwards. For example, 'racecar' is a palindrome, but 'fastcar' is not.
A partition of a sequence of characters is a list of one or more disjoint non-empty groups of consecutive characters whose concatenation yields the initial sequence. For example, ('race', 'car') is a partition of 'racecar' into two groups.
Given a sequence of characters, we can always create a partition of these characters such that each group in the partition is a palindrome! Given this observation it is natural to ask: what is the minimum number of groups needed for a given string such that every group is a palindrome?
For example:
- 'racecar' is already a palindrome, therefore it can be partitioned into one group.
- 'fastcar' does not contain any non-trivial palindromes, so it must be partitioned as ('f', 'a', 's', 't', 'c', 'a', 'r').
- 'aaadbccb' can be partitioned as ('aaa', 'd', 'bccb').
Input begins with the number n of test cases. Each test case consists of a single line of between 1 and 1000 lowercase letters, with no whitespace within.
For each test case, output a line containing the minimum number of groups required to partition the input into groups of palindromes.
Sample Input
3 racecar fastcar aaadbccb
Sample Output
1 7 3
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
const int INF=1e9;
int vis[1111][1111];
int main()
{
int n;
cin>>n;
char str[1111];
int f[1111];
while(n--)
{
int len,i,j;
memset(f,0,sizeof(f));
memset(vis,0,sizeof(vis));
scanf("%s",str+1);
len=strlen(str+1);
for(i=1;i<=len;i++)
{
vis[i][i]=1;
if(str[i]==str[i+1]&&i+1<=len) vis[i][i+1]=1;
}
for(i=1;i<=len;i++)
{
for(j=1;j+i<=len;j++)
{
if(str[j]==str[j+i]&&vis[j+1][j+i-1])
vis[j][j+i]=1;
}
}
/*for(i=1;i<=len;i++)
{
for(j=1;j<=len;j++)
{
cout<<vis[i][j]<<" ";
}
cout<<endl;
}*/
f[0]=0;
for(i=1;i<=len;i++)
f[i]=INF;
for(i=1;i<=len;i++)
{
for(j=1;j<=i;j++)
{
if(vis[j][i])
f[i]=min(f[i],f[j-1]+1);
}
}
cout<<f[len]<<endl;
}
return 0;
}