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# 5. 最长回文子串

<https://leetcode-cn.com/problems/longest-palindromic-substring/>

## 解法一：暴力

两个for循环，外层i遍历每个字符，然后内层j从i分别向两侧出发，找两头是否相等，不相等就退出循环。每次找到一个回文串，求长度，并记录首尾位置。

```python
class Solution {
public:
    string longestPalindrome(string s) {
        int maxLen = 0;
        int n = s.length();
        int start = 0, end = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; i-j >= 0 && i+j < n && s[i+j] == s[i-j]; j++) {  //回文长度为奇
                if (2*j+1 > maxLen) {  // len = (i+j)-(i-j)+1 = 2*j+1
                    start = i-j;
                    end = i+j;
                    maxLen = 2*j+1;
                }
            }
            for (int j = 0; i-1-j >= 0 && i+j < n && s[i-1-j] == s[i+j]; j++) {  //回文长度为偶
                if(2*j+2 > maxLen) {  // len = (i+j)-(i-1-j)+1 = 2*j+2
                    start = i-1-j;
                    end = i+j;
                    maxLen = 2*j+2;
                }
            }
        }
        return s.substr(start, end-start+1);
    }
};
```

```python
#python3:注意将c++中带复杂条件的for语句转换为py时，
#只能转成while语句来判断条件，在循环外设j初始值，在语句最后j自增
class Solution:
    def longestPalindrome(self, s: str) -> str:
        maxLen = 0
        n = len(s)
        start = 0
        end = 0
        for i in range(n):
            j = 0
            while i-j >= 0 and i+j < n and s[i+j] == s[i-j]:
                if 2*j+1 > maxLen:
                    start = i-j
                    end = i+j
                    maxLen = 2*j+1
                j += 1
            j = 0
            while i-1-j >= 0 and i+j < n and s[i-1-j] == s[i+j]:
                if 2*j+2 > maxLen:
                    start = i-1-j
                    end = i+j
                    maxLen = 2*j+2
                j += 1
        return s[start:end+1]
```

## 解法二：DP

`dp(i, j)` represents whether `s(i ... j)` can form a palindromic substring, `dp(i, j)` is true when s(i) equals to s(j) and `s(i+1 ... j-1)` is a palindromic substring. When we found a palindrome, check if it’s the longest one. Time complexity O(n^2). 需要注意的是构造初始解时，i是从n-1开始，为何？

看下图可知，对于串“aaaa”，由于`i<=j`，因此矩阵只有上三角。初始化斜对角全为1（因为单个字符必为回文串），第二条对角线根据是否有`i==j`决定（两个字符只有a==b才为回文）。其余每个元素`(i, j)`根据其左下方元素`(i+1, j-1)`决定。

![](/files/-M3ASWQHQ9Vq8EIrh29B)

```python
class Solution:
    def longestPalindrome(self, s: str) -> str:
        maxLen = 0
        n = len(s)
        res = ""
        dp = [[False] * n for _ in range(n)]  #二维数组创建
        for i in range(n-1, -1, -1):
            for j in range(i, n):
                if i == j:  #对角线
                    dp[i][j] = True
                elif j-i == 1:  #第二条对角线
                    dp[i][j] = s[i] == s[j]
                else:   #其余位置
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i+1][j-1] and s[i] == s[j]
                #找到更长的回文串
                if dp[i][j] and j-i+1 > maxLen:
                    maxLen = j-i+1
                    res = s[i:j+1]
        return res
```

实际上j由大到小也可以，因为填充方式是从下往上，因此只要保证i从大到小即可，j顺序可以随意，下一层都已经填完

```python
class Solution:
    def longestPalindrome(self, s: str) -> str:
        maxLen = 0
        n = len(s)
        res = ""
        dp = [[False] * n for _ in range(n)]  #二维数组创建
        for i in range(n-1, -1, -1):
            for j in range(n-1, i-1, -1):
                if i == j:  #对角线
                    dp[i][j] = True
                elif j-i == 1:  #第二条对角线
                    dp[i][j] = s[i] == s[j]
                else:   #其余位置
                    dp[i][j] = dp[i+1][j-1] and s[i] == s[j]
                #找到更长的回文串
                if dp[i][j] and j-i+1 > maxLen:
                    maxLen = j-i+1
                    res = s[i:j+1]
        return res
```

然而运行时dp比暴力慢许多，不知为何