LeetCode-in-All

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:

Solution

/**
 * @param {string} s
 * @return {number}
 */
var countSubstrings = function(s) {
    const expand = (a, l, r, res) => {
        while (l >= 0 && r < a.length) {
            if (a[l] !== a[r]) {
                return
            } else {
                res.count++
                l--
                r++
            }
        }
    }

    const a = s.split('')
    const res = { count: 0 }

    for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
        expand(a, i, i, res)
        expand(a, i, i + 1, res)
    }

    return res.count
};

export { countSubstrings }