Palindrome String-Asked in interviews

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2 min readDec 14, 2021

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Problem Statement :

You are asked to find whether a given string is a palindrome or not.

Input Format:

The first and only line of the input is a string s.

Output Format:

If the given string is palindrome then print out “Yes” otherwise print out “No”

Given:

ABCBA

Output:

Yes

Explanation of given Test Cases :

The reverse of the given string is equal to the (ABCDCBA) which is equal to the given string. Therefore, the given string is palindrome.

Approach:

We solve this question by traversing the string and checking whether the character at ith index is equal to the character at the (N-i-1)th index for every index in the range [0, N/2]

Code:

Time Complexity: O(N)
Space Complexity: O(1)

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