leetcode 5 Longest Palindromic Substring

// Time complexity O(n*n)
class Solution {
public:
    string longestPalindrome(string s) {
        int startIdx = 0, left = 0, right = 0, len = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < s.size() - 1; ++i) {
            if (s[i] == s[i + 1]) {
                left = i;
                right = i + 1;
                searchPalindrome(s, left, right, startIdx, len);
            }
            left = right = i;
            searchPalindrome(s, left, right, startIdx, len);
        }
        if (len == 0) len = s.size();
        return s.substr(startIdx, len);
    }
    void searchPalindrome(string s, int left, int right, int &startIdx, int &len) {
        int step = 1;
        while ((left - step) >= 0 && (right + step) < s.size()) {
            if (s[left - step] != s[right + step]) break;
            ++step;
        }
        int wide = right - left + 2 * step - 1;
        if (len < wide) {
            len = wide;
            startIdx = left - step + 1;
        }
    }
};