Palindrome concatenation pairs
Good morning! Here’s your coding interview problem for today.
This problem was asked by Airbnb.
Given a list of words, find all pairs of unique indices such that the concatenation of the two words is a palindrome.
For example, given the list [“code”, “edoc”, “da”, “d”], return [(0, 1), (1, 0), (2, 3)].
My Solution(C++):
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
bool isPalindrome(std::string str){
int n =str.length();
int m = n/2;
for (int i=0; i<m; i++){
if (str.at(i)!=str.at(n-i-1)) return false;
}
return true;
}
std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> allPalindromes(std::vector<std::string> words){
std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> pairs;
for (int i=0; i<words.size(); i++){
for (int j = 0; j<words.size(); j++){
if (i==j){
continue;
}
std::string word = words[i]+words[j];
if (isPalindrome(word)){
pairs.push_back(std::make_pair(i, j));
}
}
}
return pairs;
}
void test(){
std::vector<std::string> words = {"code", "edoc", "da", "d"};
std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> pairs = allPalindromes(words);
std::cout<<'[';
for (auto p: pairs) std::cout<<'('<<p.first<<' '<<p.second<<"), ";
std::cout<<']'<<'\n';
}
int main(){
test();
// std::string x = "aqua";
// std::string y = "man";
// std::vector<std::string> v = {"aagaa", "agag", "aglga", "aglollga", "agllga"};
// std::cout<<x+y<<'\n';
// for (auto i: v) std::cout<<i<<" palindrome? "<<std::boolalpha<<isPalindrome(i)<<'\n';
return 0;
}