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647. Palindromic Substrings

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Given a string s, return the number of palindromic substrings in it.

A string is a palindrome when it reads the same backward as forward.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within the string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation: Three palindromic strings: "a", "b", "c".

Example 2:

Input: s = "aaa"
Output: 6
Explanation: Six palindromic strings: "a", "a", "a", "aa", "aa", "aaa".

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 1000

  • s consists of lowercase English letters.

Solution:

class Solution:

    def countSubstrings(self, s: str) -> int:
        res = 0

        for i in range(len(s)):
            res += self.countPali(s, i, i)
            res += self.countPali(s, i, i + 1)
        return res

    def countPali(self, s, l, r):
        res = 0
        while l >= 0 and r < len(s) and s[l] == s[r]:
            res += 1
            l -= 1
            r += 1
        return res

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