Find Index i for Palindrome Concatenation in C++

Concept

With respect of given two strings S1 and S2 of equal lengths, our task is to determine an index i such that S1[0…i] and S2[i+1…n-1] give a palindrome when concatenated together. Ithas been seen that if it is not possible to determine such an index then print -1.

Input

S1 = “pqrsu”, S2 = “wxyqp”

Output

1

S1[0..1] = “pq”, S2[2..n-1] = “ypq”

S1 + S2 = “pqyqp” indicates is a palindrome.

Input

S1 = “pqrst”, S2 = “qprqz”

Output

-1

Method

• At first, we iterate from 0 to n (length of the string) and copy ith character from S1 to another string (assume it is S).
• After that we take another temporary string temp and copy the characters of S2 from index i +1 to n.
• Finally, we verify whether the string (S + temp) is palindrome or not.

Example

// C++ implementation of the approach
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
// Shows function that returns true if s is palindrome
bool isPalindrome(string str){
   int i = 0;
   int b = str.length() - 1;
   while (i< b) {
      if (str[i] != str[b])
         return false;
      i++;
      b--;
   }
   return true;
}
// Shows function to return the required index
int getIndex1(string S1, string S2, int n){
   string S = "";
   for (int i = 0; i< n; a++) {
      // Used to copy the ith character in S
      S = S + S1[i];
      string temp = "";
      // Used to copy all the character of string s2 in Temp
      for (int b = i + 1; b < n; b++)
         temp += S2[b];
      // Verify whether the string is palindrome
      if (isPalindrome(S + temp)) {
         return i;
      }
   }
   return -1;
}
// Driver code
int main(){
   string S1 = "pqrsu", S2 = "wxyqp";
   int n = S1.length();
   cout << getIndex1(S1, S2, n);
   return 0;
}

Output

1