原题:
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.
Solution:
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
if(s == null || s.equals(""))
return true;
s = s.toLowerCase();
for(int start = 0,end = s.length() - 1; start < end; start++,end--) {
while(start < end && !((s.charAt(start) <= 'z' && s.charAt(start) >= 'a') || (s.charAt(start) <= '9' && s.charAt(start) >= '0')))
start++;
while(end > start && !((s.charAt(end) <= 'z' && s.charAt(end) >= 'a') || (s.charAt(end) <= '9' && s.charAt(end) >= '0')))
end--;
if(start >= end )
return true;
if(s.charAt(start) != s.charAt(end))
return false;
}
return true;
}