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<cstring>
#include<cstdio>
#include<iostream>
#define FOR(i,a,b) for(int i=a;i<=b;++i)
#define clr(f,z) memset(f,z,sizeof(f))
using namespace std;
const int mm=1009;
char s[mm];
bool isp[mm][mm];
int dp[mm];
int main()
{
int cas;
while(~scanf("%d",&cas))
{
while(cas--)
{ clr(isp,0);
scanf("%s",s);
int len=strlen(s);
FOR(i,0,len)isp[i+1][i]=isp[i+2][i]=1;
for(int i=len;i>0;--i)
FOR(j,i,len)
if(isp[i+1][j-1]&&s[i-1]==s[j-1])isp[i][j]=true;
dp[0]=0;
FOR(i,1,len)
{
dp[i]=mm;
FOR(j,1,i)
if(isp[j][i])
dp[i]=min(dp[i],dp[j-1]+1);
}
printf("%d\n",dp[len]);
}
}
return 0;
}