Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.
For example,
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
is a palindrome.
"race a car"
is not a palindrome.
Note:
Have you consider that the string might be empty? This is a good question to ask during an interview.
For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.
思路:判断是否回文,最简单的想法就是一个指针指首部,一个指尾部。依次比较判断。
这个题目比较特殊的是要跳过无效的字母,写一个isChar()的判断方法即可。
class Solution {
public:
bool isPalindrome(string s) {
int length = s.size();
if(length<=1)
return true;
int begin = 0;
int end = length-1;
while(begin<end){
while(begin<end&&!isChar(s[begin])){
begin++;
}
while(begin<end&&!isChar(s[end])){
end--;
}
if(tolower(s[begin++])!=tolower(s[end--]))
return false;
}
return true;
}
bool isChar(char c){
if('a'<=c&&c<='z'||'0'<=c&&c<='9'||'A'<=c&&c<='Z')
return true;
else
return false;
}
};