Problem Link : http://www.spoj.com/problems/LPS/
Solution Idea:
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This one is the straight forward implementation of manachar’s algorithm. You can learn about manachar algorithm form the following links-
1. Hackerearth’s Note
2. Hackerank Topic
3. Youtube
#include <bits/stdc++.h> #define pii pair <int,int> #define pll pair <long long,long long> #define sc scanf #define pf printf #define Pi 2*acos(0.0) #define ms(a,b) memset(a, b, sizeof(a)) #define pb(a) push_back(a) #define MP make_pair #define db double #define ll long long #define EPS 10E-10 #define ff first #define ss second #define sqr(x) (x)*(x) #define D(x) cout<<#x " = "<<(x)<<endl #define VI vector <int> #define DBG pf("Hi\n") #define MOD 1000000007 #define CIN ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0) #define SZ(a) (int)a.size() #define sf(a) scanf("%d",&a) #define sfl(a) scanf("%lld",&a) #define sff(a,b) scanf("%d %d",&a,&b) #define sffl(a,b) scanf("%lld %lld",&a,&b) #define sfff(a,b,c) scanf("%d %d %d",&a,&b,&c) #define sfffl(a,b,c) scanf("%lld %lld %lld",&a,&b,&c) #define stlloop(v) for(__typeof(v.begin()) it=v.begin();it!=v.end();it++) #define loop(i,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) #define loop1(i,n) for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) #define REP(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i<b;i++) #define RREP(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i>=b;i--) #define TEST_CASE(t) for(int z=1;z<=t;z++) #define PRINT_CASE printf("Case %d: ",z) #define LINE_PRINT_CASE printf("Case %d:\n",z) #define CASE_PRINT cout<<"Case "<<z<<": " #define all(a) a.begin(),a.end() #define intlim 2147483648 #define infinity (1<<28) #define ull unsigned long long #define gcd(a, b) __gcd(a, b) #define lcm(a, b) ((a)*((b)/gcd(a,b))) using namespace std; /*----------------------Graph Moves----------------*/ //const int fx[]={+1,-1,+0,+0}; //const int fy[]={+0,+0,+1,-1}; //const int fx[]={+0,+0,+1,-1,-1,+1,-1,+1}; // Kings Move //const int fy[]={-1,+1,+0,+0,+1,+1,-1,-1}; // Kings Move //const int fx[]={-2, -2, -1, -1, 1, 1, 2, 2}; // Knights Move //const int fy[]={-1, 1, -2, 2, -2, 2, -1, 1}; // Knights Move /*------------------------------------------------*/ /*-----------------------Bitmask------------------*/ //int Set(int N,int pos){return N=N | (1<<pos);} //int reset(int N,int pos){return N= N & ~(1<<pos);} //bool check(int N,int pos){return (bool)(N & (1<<pos));} /*------------------------------------------------*/ #define mx 600005 char s1[mx]; int p[mx]; int n; string process(string &str) { string ret; ret+='$'; ret+='#'; for(int i=0;i<SZ(str);i++) { ret+=str[i]; ret+='#'; } ret+='@'; return ret; // cout<<str<<endl; } int manacher(string &str) { int c=0,r=0; for(int i=1;i<SZ(str)-1;i++) { int miror=c+c-i; if(i<r) p[i]=min(p[miror],r-i); while(str[i+1+p[i]]==str[i-1-p[i]]) p[i]++; if(i+p[i]>r) { c=i; r=i+p[i]; } } int ret=0; for(int i=0;i<SZ(str);i++) ret=max(ret,p[i]); return ret; } int main() { // freopen("in.txt","r",stdin); // freopen("out.txt","w",stdout); string str; scanf("%d",&n); scanf("%s",s1); str=s1; str=process(str); int ans=manacher(str); printf("%d\n",ans); return 0; }