/**
* @file
* @brief Implementation of [Manacher's
* Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_palindromic_substring)
* @details
* Manacher's Algorithm is used to find the longest palindromic substring within
* a string in O(n) time. It exploits the property of a palindrome that its
* first half is symmetric to the last half, and thus if the first half is a
* palindrome, then last half is also a palindrome.
* @author [Riti Kumari](https://github.com/riti2409)
*/
#include <cassert> /// for assert
#include <cstdint>
#include <iostream> /// for IO operations
#include <vector> /// for std::vector STL
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <string> /// for string (required for MS Visual C++)
#else
#include <cstring> /// for string
#endif
/**
* @namespace strings
* @brief Algorithms with strings
*/
namespace strings {
/**
* @namespace manacher
* @brief Functions for [Manacher's
* Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_palindromic_substring)
* implementation
*/
namespace manacher {
/**
* @brief A function that implements Manacher's algorithm
* @param prototype is the string where algorithm finds a palindromic substring.
* This string can contain any character except `@` `#` `&`
* @returns the largest palindromic substring
*/
std::string manacher(const std::string &prototype) {
if (prototype.size() > 0) {
// stuffing characters between the input string to handle cases with
// even length palindrome
std::string stuffed_string = "";
for (auto str : prototype) {
stuffed_string += str;
stuffed_string += "#";
}
stuffed_string = "@#" + stuffed_string + "&";
std::vector<uint64_t> palindrome_max_half_length(
stuffed_string.size(),
0); // this array will consist of largest possible half length of
// palindrome centered at index (say i with respect to the
// stuffed string). This value will be lower bound of half
// length since single character is a palindrome in itself.
uint64_t bigger_center =
0; // this is the index of the center of palindromic
// substring which would be considered as the larger
// palindrome, having symmetric halves
uint64_t right = 0; // this is the maximum length of the palindrome
// from 'bigger_center' to the rightmost end
// i is considered as center lying within one half of the palindrone
// which is centered at 'bigger_center'
for (uint64_t i = 1; i < stuffed_string.size() - 1; i++) {
if (i < right) { // when i is before right end, considering
// 'bigger_center' as center of palindrome
uint64_t opposite_to_i =
2 * bigger_center -
i; // this is the opposite end of string, if
// centered at center, and having one end as i
// finding the minimum possible half length among
// the palindrome on having center at opposite end,
// and the string between i and right end,
// considering 'bigger_center' as center of palindrome
palindrome_max_half_length[i] = std::min(
palindrome_max_half_length[opposite_to_i], right - i);
}
// expanding the palindrome across the maximum stored length in the
// array, centered at i
while (stuffed_string[i + (palindrome_max_half_length[i] + 1)] ==
stuffed_string[i - (palindrome_max_half_length[i] + 1)]) {
palindrome_max_half_length[i]++;
}
// if palindrome centered at i exceeds the rightmost end of
// palindrome centered at 'bigger_center', then i will be made the
// 'bigger_center' and right value will also be updated with respect
// to center i
if (i + palindrome_max_half_length[i] > right) {
bigger_center = i;
right = i + palindrome_max_half_length[i];
}
}
// now extracting the first largest palindrome
uint64_t half_length = 0; // half length of the largest palindrome
uint64_t center_index = 0; // index of center of the largest palindrome
for (uint64_t i = 1; i < stuffed_string.size() - 1; i++) {
if (palindrome_max_half_length[i] > half_length) {
half_length = palindrome_max_half_length[i];
center_index = i;
}
}
std::string palindromic_substring =
""; // contains the resulting largest palindrome
if (half_length > 0) {
// extra information: when '#' is the center, then palindromic
// substring will have even length, else palindromic substring will
// have odd length
uint64_t start =
center_index - half_length +
1; // index of first character of palindromic substring
uint64_t end =
center_index + half_length -
1; // index of last character of palindromic substring
for (uint64_t index = start; index <= end; index += 2) {
palindromic_substring += stuffed_string[index];
}
} else {
// if length = 0, then there does not exist any palindrome of length
// > 1 so we can assign any character of length 1 from string as the
// palindromic substring
palindromic_substring = prototype[0];
}
return palindromic_substring;
} else {
// handling case when string is empty
return "";
}
}
} // namespace manacher
} // namespace strings
/**
* @brief Self-test implementations
* @returns void
*/
static void test() {
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("") == "");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("abababc") == "ababa");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("cbaabd") == "baab");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("DedzefDeD") == "DeD");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("XZYYXXYZXX") == "YXXY");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("1sm222m10abc") == "m222m");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("798989591") == "98989");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("xacdedcax") == "xacdedcax");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("xaccax") == "xaccax");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("a") == "a");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("xy") == "x");
assert(strings::manacher::manacher("abced") == "a");
std::cout << "All tests have passed!" << std::endl;
}
/**
* @brief Main function
* @returns 0 on exit
*/
int main() {
test(); // run self-test implementations
return 0;
}