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Compact & naive C# function to get the longest palindromic substrings of a string (i.e. all palindromes excluding overlaps). Time complexity is over quadratic.
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// Naive, suboptimal | |
IEnumerable<string> GetLongestPalindromes(string s) | |
{ | |
List<string> palindromes = new List<string>(); | |
var len = s.Length; | |
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) | |
{ | |
for (int j = len - 1; j > i; j--) | |
{ | |
for (int k = 0; true; k++) | |
{ | |
if (s[i + k] != s[j - k]) | |
break; // Not palindrome | |
int dist = (j - k) - (i + k); | |
if (dist <= 1) // Center reached, palindrome found; dist = 0 odd length, dist = 1 even length | |
{ | |
palindromes.Add(s.Substring(i, j - i + 1)); | |
i = j; // Skip overlapping palindromes | |
break; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return palindromes; | |
} |
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