#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#define MAXN 5000 + 10
char buf[MAXN], s[MAXN];
int p[MAXN];
int main() {
int n, m = 0, max = 0, x, y;
int i, j;
fgets(buf, sizeof(s), stdin);
n = strlen(buf);
for ( i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
if (isalpha(buf[i]))
{
p[m] = i;
s[m++] = toupper(buf[i]);
}
for (i = 0; i < m; i++)
{
for (j = 0; i - j >= 0 && i + j < m; j++)
{
if (s[i - j] != s[i + j]) break;
if (j * 2 + 1 > max)
{
max = j * 2 + 1;
x = p[i - j];
y = p[i + j];
}
}
for (j = 0; i - j >= 0 && i - j + 1 < m; j++)
{
if (s[i - j] != s[i - j + 1]) break;
if (j * 2 + 2 > max)
{
max = j * 2 + 2;
x = p[i - j];
y = p[i + j + 1];
}
}
}
}
for (i = x; i <= y; i++)
printf("%c", buf[i]);
printf("\n");
return 0;
}