5. 最长回文子串

5. 最长回文子串 - 力扣(LeetCode)

class Solution {
public:
  string longestPalindrome(string s) {
    if (s.size() == 1)
      return s;

    int N = s.size();
    int Longest = 1;
    int Begin = 0;
    vector<vector<int>> DP(N, vector<int>(N));

    // Every single character is a palindrome.
    for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
      DP[i][i] = true;

    // Enumerate substrings [i..i + Len] from short to long.
    for (int Len = 2; Len <= N; ++Len) {
      for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
        int j = Len + i - 1;
        if (j >= N)
          break;

        // Leftmost and rightmost character differs.
        if (s[i] != s[j]) {
          DP[i][j] = false;
        } else {
          // Special case for substrings with Len of 1 or 2.
          if (j - i <= 2)
            DP[i][j] = true;
          else
            DP[i][j] = DP[i + 1][j - 1];
        }

        // If substring [i..j] is already a palindrome.
        if (DP[i][j] && j - i + 1 > Longest) {
          Longest = j - i + 1;
          Begin = i;
        }
      }
    }

    return s.substr(Begin, Longest);
  }
};

这种二维暴力 DP 是总从左侧开始向右侧进行枚举的,其实也要 \(\mathrm O\left(n^2\right)\) 才能解决,还需要占用同样 \(\mathrm O\left(n^2\right)\) 的空间,似乎不如直接按照官解的第二种方法进行中心枚举。

class Solution {
public:
  string longestPalindrome(string s) {
    int N = s.size();
    int Longest = 1;
    int Begin = 0;
    // Enumerate the center of palindromes.
    for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
      // Search for palindromes with odd length.
      int L = i;
      int R = i;
      while (L >= 0 && R < N) {
        if (s[L] != s[R])
          break;

        if (R - L + 1 > Longest) {
          Longest = R - L + 1;
          Begin = L;
        }
        --L;
        ++R;
      }
      // Search for palindromes with even length.
      L = i;
      R = i + 1;
      while (L >= 0 && R < N) {
        if (s[L] != s[R])
          break;

        if (R - L + 1 > Longest) {
          Longest = R - L + 1;
          Begin = L;
        }
        --L;
        ++R;
      }
    }
    return s.substr(Begin, Longest);
  }
};

实际上这种中心枚举的速度还比 DP 要快很多。看上去 DP 很多时候其实也并不是最优解。当然,在枚举的时候也同样要注意对于奇数长度和偶数长度的回文串进行分别搜索。