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Count Different Palindrome Substrings

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Problem statement

A string S is considered palindrome if it reads same way if spelled backwards, for example "nolemonnomelon", "ASANtaLivedAsAdeviLatNASA".

Any non-empty string has substrings that are palindromes. For example, in the string S = "hellolle", there are many of such "subpalindromes":

  • ellolle
  • ll, ll - note that these are two distinct substrings that only happen to be equal.
  • lol and lloll
  • And each single letter can be considered a palindrome - 8 of them.
  • Please write a function that, given a string S (only contains lowercase letters), returns number of different ways are there to pick a palindrome substring fro mS.

    Function

    countDifferentPalindromeSubstrings(s: String) → int

    Examples

    Example 1

    s = "hellolle"return = 13
    Output 13.

    Example 2

    s = "wowpurerocks"return = 14

    each letter + "wow" + "rer"

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    public int countDifferentPalindromeSubstrings(String s) {
      // write your code here
    }
    
    s"hellolle"
    expected13
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