336. Palindrome Pairs
Hard37.0% acceptance238,243 / 644,386 submissions
Asked by 7 companies
Topics
You are given a 0-indexed array of unique strings words.
A palindrome pair is a pair of integers (i, j) such that:
0 <= i, j < words.length,i != j, andwords[i] + words[j](the concatenation of the two strings) is a palindrome.
Return an array of all the palindrome pairs of words.
You must write an algorithm with O(sum of words[i].length) runtime complexity.
Example 1:
Input: words = ["abcd","dcba","lls","s","sssll"] Output: [[0,1],[1,0],[3,2],[2,4]] Explanation: The palindromes are ["abcddcba","dcbaabcd","slls","llssssll"]
Example 2:
Input: words = ["bat","tab","cat"] Output: [[0,1],[1,0]] Explanation: The palindromes are ["battab","tabbat"]
Example 3:
Input: words = ["a",""] Output: [[0,1],[1,0]] Explanation: The palindromes are ["a","a"]
Constraints:
1 <= words.length <= 50000 <= words[i].length <= 300words[i]consists of lowercase English letters.
Hints
Hint 1
Checking every two pairs will exceed the time limit. It will be O(n^2 * k). We need a faster way.
Hint 2
If we hash every string in the array, how can we check if two pairs form a palindrome after the concatenation?
Hint 3
We can check every string in words and consider it as words[j] (i.e., the suffix of the target palindrome). We can check if there is a hash of string that can be the prefix to make it a palindrome.