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return $string . reverse $string;
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That only generates even length palindromes. I instead suggest

return (
    $string
    . ( rand < .5 ? $letters[ rand @letters ] : '' )
    . reverse $string
);
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Also, Don't Repeat Yourself. That's far too much copy-paste code there. Look at the benchmark script I wrote: much less code, and it tells you exactly which input strings each solution failed on and what it produced instead.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: Finding longest palindrome from a string by Aristotle
in thread Finding longest palindrome from a string by BUU

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