Given a string s, find the longest palindromic substring in s. You may assume that the maximum length of s is 1000.

Example:

Input: "babad"

Output: "bab"

Note: "aba" is also a valid answer.

Example:

Input: "cbbd"

Output: "bb"

指向中間字符之后向前后兩個(gè)方向掃描，能夠滿足回文序列的最大長度，記錄這個(gè)長度和起始位置，并不斷推進(jìn)中間位置，直到string的末尾，返回最長回文序列子串。

string longestPalindrome(string s) {
    if (s.empty()) return "";
    if (s.size() == 1) return s;
    int min_start = 0, max_len = 1;
    for (int i = 0; i < s.size();) {
      if (s.size() - i <= max_len / 2) break;
      int j = i, k = i;
      while (k < s.size()-1 && s[k+1] == s[k]) ++k; // Skip duplicate characters.
      i = k+1;
      while (k < s.size()-1 && j > 0 && s[k + 1] == s[j - 1]) { ++k; --j; } // Expand.
      int new_len = k - j + 1;
      if (new_len > max_len) { min_start = j; max_len = new_len; }
    }
    return s.substr(min_start, max_len);
}