title: Dynamic Programming Set 28 Minimum Insertions To Form A Palindrome
signature: class Solution {
  
      public int DynamicProgrammingSet28MinimumInsertionsToFormAPalindrome(List<char> str, int l, int h) {
test_code: using System;
  using System.Numerics;
  using System.Diagnostics;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Security.Cryptography;
  using System.Web.UI;
  using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
  
  // SOLUTION CODE
  // ============================================
  PLACEHOLDER_CODE_BODY
  
  // TESTING CODE 
  // ============================================
  namespace EvaluatePrediction {
      class TestRunner {
          public bool ValidateSolution(int actual, int expected){
              return new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(actual) == new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(expected);
          }
  
          public string driver(List<char> str, int l, int h, int expected){
              try{
                PLACEHOLDER_CLS_NAME solution_cls = new PLACEHOLDER_CLS_NAME();
                int pred_result = solution_cls.PLACEHOLDER_FN_NAME(str, l, h); 
                if (ValidateSolution(
                      pred_result,
                      expected)){
                  return "PASSED";
                }
                return "FAILED";
              } 
              catch (Exception exception_obj)
              {
                return exception_obj.GetType().FullName;
              }
          }
          static void Main(string[] args) {
              TestRunner runner = new TestRunner();
              String result;
              result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'F', 'F', 'J', 'K', 'K', 'L', 'P', 'S', 'T', 'V', 'W', 'Y', 'b', 'd', 'j', 'l', 't', 'u', 'x', 'y'}, 11, 11, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-0...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'0', '1', '8', '8', '8', '4', '4', '3', '9', '6', '5', '2', '8', '2', '0', '2', '6', '0', '7', '7', '3', '2', '4', '5', '9', '7', '2', '4', '1', '8', '7', '9', '8', '0', '8', '5', '4', '2', '3'}, 19, 22, 
                  3
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-1...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'1'}, 0, 0, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-2...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'g', 'y', 'r', 'M', 'v', 'z', ' ', 'k', 'S', 'P', 'x', 'p', 'E', 'z', 'T', 'K', 'k', 'B', 's', 'P', 'p', 'e', 'G', 't', 'r', 'M', 'p', ' ', 'H', 'a'}, 24, 27, 
                  3
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-3...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'0', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '2', '2', '2', '2', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '4', '4', '4', '5', '5', '5', '5', '5', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '6', '7', '8', '8', '8', '9', '9'}, 33, 34, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-4...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<char>{'X', 'B', 'E', 'v', 'K', 't', 'k', 'K', 'Q', 's', 'V', 'N', 'l', 'k', 'T', 'N', 'J', 'z', 'f', 'p', 'J', 'g', 'S', 'P', 'M', 'b', 'H', 'L', 'v', 'E', 'A', 'n', 'D', 'U', 'c', 's', 'M', 'Q', 'P', 'g', 'g', ' '}, 26, 27, 
                  1
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-5...{0}",
                  result)
              );
          }
      }
  }
  
source_py: def dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome(str, l, h):
      if (l > h):
          return sys.maxsize
      if (l == h):
          return 0
      if (l == (h - 1)):
          return (0 if (str[l] == str[h]) else 1)
      if (str[l] == str[h]):
          return dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome(str, (l + 1), (h - 1))
      else:
          return (min(dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome(str, l, (h - 1)), dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome(str, (l + 1), h)) + 1)
source_cpp: int dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome(vector<char> str, int l, int h) {
    if ( l > h ) return INT_MAX;
    if ( l == h ) return 0;
    if ( l == h - 1 ) return ( str [ l ] == str [ h ] ) ? 0 : 1;
    return ( str [ l ] == str [ h ] ) ? dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome ( str, l + 1, h - 1 ) : ( min ( dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome ( str, l, h - 1 ), dynamic_programming_set_28_minimum_insertions_to_form_a_palindrome ( str, l + 1, h ) ) + 1 );
  }