Code RoomLongest palindromic substring
MediumPrep Room Coding #953

Longest palindromic substring

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

Given a string s (0 <= len(s) <= 10^5) of printable ASCII characters, return the LENGTH of the longest palindromic substring (contiguous). Return 0 for the empty string.

Implement
longest_palindromic_substring_len(s: str) → int
Examples
in["babad"]out3
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["babad"]3not run yetsample