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Solution: Longest Palindromic Substring
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Problem Statement

Given a string, find the length of its Longest Palindromic Substring (LPS). In a palindromic string, elements read the same backward and forward.

Example 1:

Input: "abdbca"
Output: 3
Explanation: LPS is "bdb".

Example 2:

Input: = "cddpd"
Output: 3
Explanation: LPS is "dpd".

Example 3:

Input: = "pqr"
Output: 1
Explanation: LPS could be "p", "q" or "r".

Constraints:

  • 1 <= st.length <= 1000
  • st consists only of lowercase English letters.

Basic Solution

This problem follows the "Longest Palindromic Subsequence" pattern

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