Dsa
Strings
Easy
Palindrome Substrings
Given a string, count the number of distinct substrings that are palindromes. A substring is defined as a contiguous sequence of characters within the string. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forwards and backwards.
Input:
A single line containing the input string. The string will be non-empty and contains only lowercase English letters.
Output:
A single integer: the count of distinct palindromic substrings.
Example:
Input:
abba
Output:
6
Explanation:
The distinct palindromic substrings are: "a", "b", "bb", "abba", "bab", and "a".
Key concepts
stringspalindromessubstring
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