Minimum Appends for Palindrome! - InterviewBit Solution

Problem: Minimum Appends for Palindrome!

Problem Description

Given a string A consisting of lowercase characters.

We need to tell minimum characters to be appended (insertion at end) to make the string A a palindrome.

Problem Constraints

1 <= |A| <= 105

A consists only of lower-case characters.

Input Format

First argument is an string A.

Output Format

Return a integer denoting the minimum characters to be appended (insertion at end) to make the string A a palindrome.

Example Input

Input 1:

A = "abede"

Input 2:

A = "aabb"

Example Output

Output 1:

2

Output 2:

2

Example Explanation

Explanation 1:

We can make string palindrome as "abedeba" by adding ba at the end of the string.

Explanation 2:

We can make string palindrome as "aabbaa" by adding aa at the end of the string.

Solution Approach:

Solution:

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