LeetCode-in-Java

1771. Maximize Palindrome Length From Subsequences

Hard

You are given two strings, word1 and word2. You want to construct a string in the following manner:

Return the length of the longest palindrome that can be constructed in the described manner. If no palindromes can be constructed, return 0.

A subsequence of a string s is a string that can be made by deleting some (possibly none) characters from s without changing the order of the remaining characters.

A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward as well as backward.

Example 1:

Input: word1 = “cacb”, word2 = “cbba”

Output: 5

Explanation: Choose “ab” from word1 and “cba” from word2 to make “abcba”, which is a palindrome.

Example 2:

Input: word1 = “ab”, word2 = “ab”

Output: 3

Explanation: Choose “ab” from word1 and “a” from word2 to make “aba”, which is a palindrome.

Example 3:

Input: word1 = “aa”, word2 = “bb”

Output: 0

Explanation: You cannot construct a palindrome from the described method, so return 0.

Constraints:

Solution

public class Solution {
    public int longestPalindrome(String word1, String word2) {
        int len1 = word1.length();
        int len2 = word2.length();
        int len = len1 + len2;
        String word = word1 + word2;
        int[][] dp = new int[len][len];
        int max = 0;
        char[] arr = word.toCharArray();
        for (int d = 1; d <= len; d++) {
            for (int i = 0; i + d - 1 < len; i++) {
                if (arr[i] == arr[i + d - 1]) {
                    dp[i][i + d - 1] =
                            d == 1 ? 1 : Math.max(dp[i + 1][i + d - 2] + 2, dp[i][i + d - 1]);
                    if (i < len1 && i + d - 1 >= len1) {
                        max = Math.max(max, dp[i][i + d - 1]);
                    }
                } else {
                    dp[i][i + d - 1] = Math.max(dp[i + 1][i + d - 1], dp[i][i + d - 2]);
                }
            }
        }
        return max;
    }
}