Longest Palindrome by Concatenating Two Letter Words
Greedy
medium
Score: 30
You are given an array of strings words
. Each element of words
consists of two lowercase English letters.
Create the longest possible palindrome by selecting some elements from words
and concatenating them in any order. Each element can be selected at most once.
Return the length of the longest palindrome that you can create. If it is impossible to create any palindrome, return 0
.
A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward.
Input Format
First Parameter: Number n
Second Parameter: Array of String words
of size n
Output Format
Return the integer
Example 1
Input: words = ["lc","cl","gg"]
Output: 6
Explanation: One longest palindrome is "lc" + "gg" + "cl" = "lcggcl", of length 6.
Note that "clgglc" is another longest palindrome that can be created.
Example 2
Input: words = ["ab","ty","yt","lc","cl","ab"]
Output: 8
Explanation: One longest palindrome is "ty" + "lc" + "cl" + "yt" = "tylcclyt", of length 8.
Note that "lcyttycl" is another longest palindrome that can be created.
Example 2
Input: words = ["cc","ll","xx"]
Output: 2
Explanation: One longest palindrome is "cc", of length 2.
Note that "ll" is another longest palindrome that can be created, and so is "xx".
Constraints
1 <= words.length
<= 105words[i].length == 2
words[i]
consists of lowercase English letters.- Expected Time Complexity - O(n )
- Expected Space Complexity - O(n)