Description

Problem H: Partitioning by Palindromes

We say a sequence of characters is a palindrome if it is the same written forwards and backwards. For example, 'racecar' is a palindrome, but 'fastcar' is not.
A partition of a sequence of characters is a list of one or more disjoint non-empty groups of consecutive characters whose concatenation yields the initial sequence. For example, ('race', 'car') is a partition of 'racecar' into two groups.
Given a sequence of characters, we can always create a partition of these characters such that each group in the partition is a palindrome! Given this observation it is natural to ask: what is the minimum number of groups needed for a given string such that every group is a palindrome?
For example:
- 'racecar' is already a palindrome, therefore it can be partitioned into one group.
- 'fastcar' does not contain any non-trivial palindromes, so it must be partitioned as ('f', 'a', 's', 't', 'c', 'a', 'r').
- 'aaadbccb' can be partitioned as ('aaa', 'd', 'bccb').
Input begins with the number n of test cases. Each test case consists of a single line of between 1 and 1000 lowercase letters, with no whitespace within.
For each test case, output a line containing the minimum number of groups required to partition the input into groups of palindromes.
Sample Input
3 racecar fastcar aaadbccb
Sample Output
1 7 3
Kevin Waugh
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
const int INF=(1<<29);
char z[1007];
int dp[1007];
bool judge(int left,int right)
{
for(int c=left,d=right;c<=d;++c,--d)
if(z[c]!=z[d])return false;
return true;
}
int min(int x,int y)
{
return x<y?x:y;
}
int main()
{
int n;
while(scanf("%d",&n)!=EOF)
{
while(n--)
{
scanf("%s",z+1);
dp[0]=0;
int len=strlen(z+1);
for(int i=1;i<=len;++i)
dp[i]=INF;
for(int a=1;a<=len;++a)
for(int b=1;b<=a;++b)
if(judge(b,a))
dp[a]=min(dp[a],dp[b-1]+1);
printf("%d\n",dp[len]);
}
}
return 0;
}