<p>Given a string <code>s</code>, return <em>the number of <strong>palindromic substrings</strong> in it</em>.</p> <p>A string is a <strong>palindrome</strong> when it reads the same backward as forward.</p> <p>A <strong>substring</strong> is a contiguous sequence of characters within the string.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Example 1:</strong></p> <pre> <strong>Input:</strong> s = "abc" <strong>Output:</strong> 3 <strong>Explanation:</strong> Three palindromic strings: "a", "b", "c". </pre> <p><strong>Example 2:</strong></p> <pre> <strong>Input:</strong> s = "aaa" <strong>Output:</strong> 6 <strong>Explanation:</strong> Six palindromic strings: "a", "a", "a", "aa", "aa", "aaa". </pre> <p> </p> <p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p> <ul> <li><code>1 <= s.length <= 1000</code></li> <li><code>s</code> consists of lowercase English letters.</li> </ul>