336. Palindrome Pairs

Given a list of unique words, find all pairs of distinct indices (i, j) in the given list, so that the concatenation of the two words, i.e. words[i] + words[j] is a palindrome.

Example 1:
Given words = ["bat", "tab", "cat"]
Return [[0, 1], [1, 0]]
The palindromes are ["battab", "tabbat"]
Example 2:
Given words = ["abcd", "dcba", "lls", "s", "sssll"]
Return [[0, 1], [1, 0], [3, 2], [2, 4]]
The palindromes are ["dcbaabcd", "abcddcba", "slls", "llssssll"]

Solution：

思路：
Pairs like "abcd" and "dcba". Obviously, these two strings can make a palindrome pair. Suppose we are applying the solution to this case and String s1 = "abcd". When visiting the string and cut the string to substring "abcd" and "", we can know that if we reverse s1 and find the reversed string "dcba" existed thus we find the pair.
This is one of the general cases that are easily to be considered.

Pairs like "abade" and "ed". In this case, the two strings cannot be simply reversed, concatenated and made to palindrome pair as a whole. However, it is still obvious that "ed"+"abade" = "edabade" is palindromic. In this case, we need to find prefix of string1 which is palindromic and reverse the rest to make palindrom pair. This is a more general case since in the first case I introduce, actually the prefix is "".

Time Complexity: O(N) Space Complexity: O(N)

Solution Code：

class Solution {
    public List> palindromePairs(String[] words) {
        List> ret = new ArrayList<>(); 
        if (words == null || words.length < 2) return ret;
        Map map = new HashMap();
        for (int i=0; i list = new ArrayList();
                        list.add(map.get(str2rvs));
                        list.add(i);
                        ret.add(list);
                        // System.out.printf("isPal(str1): %s\n", list.toString());
                    }
                }
                if (isPalindrome(str2)) {
                    String str1rvs = new StringBuilder(str1).reverse().toString();
                    // check "str.length() != 0" to avoid duplicates
                    if (map.containsKey(str1rvs) && map.get(str1rvs) != i && str2.length()!=0) { 
                        List list = new ArrayList();
                        list.add(i);
                        list.add(map.get(str1rvs));
                        ret.add(list);
                        // System.out.printf("isPal(str2): %s\n", list.toString());
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }

    private boolean isPalindrome(String str) {
        int left = 0;
        int right = str.length() - 1;
        while (left <= right) {
            if (str.charAt(left++) !=  str.charAt(right--)) return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}