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, and there exists one unique longest palindromic substring.

求最长回文字串，传说有o(n)解法 但我的也能过，

public class Solution {
    public String longestPalindrome(String s) {
        	
		if (s.isEmpty()) {
			return null;
		}
		if (s.length() == 1) {
			return s;
		}
		String longest = s.substring(0, 1);
		for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
			// get longest palindrome with center of i
			String tmp = helper(s, i, i);
			if (tmp.length() > longest.length()) {
				longest = tmp;
			}

			// get longest palindrome with center of i, i+1
			tmp = helper(s, i, i + 1);
			if (tmp.length() > longest.length()) {
				longest = tmp;
			}
		}
		return longest;
	}

	// Given a center, either one letter or two letter,
	// Find longest palindrome
	public static String helper(String s, int begin, int end) {
		while (begin >= 0 && end <= s.length() - 1
				&& s.charAt(begin) == s.charAt(end)) {
			begin--;
			end++;
		}
		String subS = s.substring(begin + 1, end);
		return subS;
	}


    
}