Because the golf isn't complete without an insanely short regex solution:
sub japhy { # 74
our$P="";pop=~m{(.+).?(??{reverse$1})
(?{length$P<length$&and$P=$&})^}xs;$P
}
Update: inspired by ccn's array approach:
sub japhy { # 68
our@P="";pop=~m{(.+).?(??{reverse$
1})(?{$P[length$&]=$&})^}xs;$P[-1]
}
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Perl,
regex,
and perl
hacker
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