s0647_palindromic_substrings

647. Palindromic Substrings

Medium

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

#include <vector>
#include <string>

class Solution {
private:
    void expand(const std::vector<char>& a, int l, int r, int& res) {
        while (l >= 0 && r < a.size()) {
            if (a[l] != a[r]) {
                return;
            } else {
                res++;
                l--;
                r++;
            }
        }
    }

public:
    int countSubstrings(const std::string& s) {
        std::vector<char> a(s.begin(), s.end());
        int res = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
            expand(a, i, i, res);
            expand(a, i, i + 1, res);
        }
        return res;
    }
};