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Finds the most common palindrome in a string
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import javafx.util.Pair; | |
import java.util.HashMap; | |
import java.util.Map; | |
public class MostCommonPalindrome { | |
public static void main(String[] args) { | |
if (args.length < 1) { | |
System.out.println("Usage: <program> <string_to_find_palindromes>"); | |
System.exit(1); | |
} | |
String s = args[0]; | |
Pair<String, Integer> result = findCommonPalindrome(s); | |
if (result.getValue() == 0) { | |
System.out.println("No palindrome found"); | |
} else { | |
System.out.println("Found:\t" + result.getKey() + " " + result.getValue() + " times."); | |
} | |
} | |
private static Pair<String, Integer> findCommonPalindrome(String s) { | |
Map<String, Integer> foundPalindromes = new HashMap<>(); | |
Pair<String, Integer> maxPalindrome = new Pair<>("string", 0); | |
for (int i = 0; i < s.length() - 1; i++) { | |
for (int j = i + 1; j < s.length(); j++) { | |
if (verifyPalindrome(s, i, j)) { | |
String substring = s.substring(i, j + 1); | |
Integer foundTimes = foundPalindromes.get(substring); | |
if (foundTimes == null) { | |
foundTimes = 0; | |
} | |
foundTimes++; | |
foundPalindromes.put(substring, foundTimes); | |
if (maxPalindrome == null || maxPalindrome.getValue() < foundTimes) { | |
maxPalindrome = new Pair<>(substring, foundTimes); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return maxPalindrome; | |
} | |
private static boolean verifyPalindrome(String s, int start, int end) { | |
int length = end - start + 1; | |
for (int i = start; i <= start + (length / 2); i++) { | |
if (s.charAt(i) != s.charAt(end - (i - start))) { | |
return false; | |
} | |
} | |
return true; | |
} | |
} |
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