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Palindromic Substring Counter

Create a function to count how many palindromic substrings a given string contains. A substring is palindromic if it reads the same backward as forward. Input: - A single line containing the string. Output: - The number of palindromic substrings in the string. Example: Input: "abba" Output: "6" (the substrings are "a", "b", "bb", "abba", "a", "a")

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