# Palindrome Partitioning III in C++

C++Server Side ProgrammingProgramming

Suppose we have a string s that is containing lowercase letters and an integer k. We have to maintain some properties. These are −

• First, we have to change some characters (if needed) of s to other lowercase English letters.
• Then divide the string s into k substrings such that each substring is a palindrome.

We have to find the minimal number of characters that we need to change to divide the string.

So if the string is like “ababbc” and k = 2, then the answer will be 1, as we have to change one character to split this into two palindrome strings. So if we change c to b, or second last b to c, then we can get one palindrome like either “bbb” or “cbc”, and another palindrome is “aba”.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• Define an array memo of size: 105 x 105.
• Define a function solve(), this will take s, idx, k, one 2D array > dp,
• if idx is same as size of s, then −
• return when k is 0 then 0 otherwise 1000
• if memo[idx][k] is not equal to -1, then −
• return memo[idx][k]
• if k <= 0, then −
• return inf
• ans := inf
• for initialize i := idx, when i < size of s, update (increase i by 1), do −
• ans := minimum of ans and dp[idx][i] + call the function solve(s, i + 1, k - 1, dp)
• return memo[idx][k] = ans
• From the main method, do the following
• n := size of s
• fill memo with -1
• Define one 2D array dp of size n x n
• for initialize l := 2, when l <= n, update (increase l by 1), do −
• for initialize i := 0, j := l - 1, when j < n, update (increase j by 1), (increase i by 1), do −
• if l is same as 2, then −
• dp[i][j] := true when s[i] is not same as s[j]
• Otherwise
• dp[i][j] := dp[i + 1][j - 1] + 0 when s[i] is same as s[j]
• return solve(s, 0, k, dp)

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

## Example

Live Demo

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
typedef long long int lli;
class Solution {
public:
int memo[105][105];
lli solve(string s, int idx, int k, vector < vector <int> > &dp){
if(idx == s.size()) {
return k == 0? 0 : 1000;
}
if(memo[idx][k] != -1) return memo[idx][k];
if(k <= 0)return INT_MAX;
lli ans = INT_MAX;
for(int i = idx; i < s.size(); i++){
ans = min(ans, dp[idx][i] + solve(s, i + 1, k - 1, dp));
}
return memo[idx][k] = ans;
}
int palindromePartition(string s, int k) {
int n = s.size();
memset(memo, -1, sizeof(memo));
vector < vector <int> > dp(n, vector <int>(n));
for(int l =2; l <= n; l++){
for(int i = 0, j = l - 1; j <n; j++, i++){
if(l==2){
dp[i][j] = !(s[i] == s[j]);
}else{
dp[i][j] = dp[i+1][j-1] + !(s[i] == s[j]);
}
}
}
return solve(s, 0, k, dp);
}
};
main(){
Solution ob;
cout << (ob.palindromePartition("ababbc", 2));
}

## Input

“ababbc”

## Output

1
Published on 02-Jun-2020 14:59:14