Problem 75. Find the palindrome

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Given the string a, find the longest palindromic sub-string b.

So when

 a = 'xkayakyy';

you should return

 b = 'kayak';

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David Young on 8 Feb 2012

This needs a richer test suite, as the leading solution at the time of this comment is just a lookup table.

Hans Kramer on 31 Oct 2018

You should add testcases where the palindrome is in the 2nd half of the word. Cause then my solution wouldnt work and i had to come up with something else.^^

Sanzhar Askaruly on 13 Aug 2019

Useful!

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