PalindromesAnalyzer | Topcoder Archive

Problem Statement

A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. The PalMeasure of a string is the sum of the lengths of its substrings that are palindromes. Return the PalMeasure of the concatenation of all the strings in the String[] text.

Definition

Class:: PalindromesAnalyzer
Method:: summaryLength
Parameters:: String[]
Returns:: long
Method signature:: long summaryLength(String[] text)
(be sure your method is public)

Notes

A substring is a sequence of consecutive characters from a string.
An entire string counts as a substring of itself.
Count equal substrings which have different positions as different. For example, if text = {"AAA"}, return 10.

Constraints

text will contain between 1 and 50 elements, inclusive.
Each element of text will contain only uppercase letters ('A'-'Z').
Each element of text will contain between 1 and 50 characters, inclusive.

Examples

```
{"AAA"}
```
```
Returns: 10
```
```
{"AB"}
```
```
Returns: 2
```
```
{"AB", "BA"}
```
```
Returns: 10
```
```
{"AB", "AAA"}
```
```
Returns: 15
```
```
{"AZ", "ZZ", "A"}
```
```
Returns: 17
```

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