package palindromic_substrings func checkSubstring(s string, i, j int) int { if i < 0 || j >= len(s) { return 0 } count := 0 for i >= 0 && j < len(s) && s[i] == s[j] { count += 1 i -= 1 j += 1 } return count } func countSubstrings(s string) int { count := 0 for i, _ := range s { count += checkSubstring(s, i, i) count += checkSubstring(s, i, i+1) } return count }