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.
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
if (s.length() == 0) {
return true;
}
s = s.toUpperCase();
int first = 0;
int end = s.length()-1;
while (first < end) {
if ((s.charAt(first)<'A' || s.charAt(first)>'Z') && (s.charAt(first)>'9' || s.charAt(first)<'0' )) {
first++;
continue;
}
if ((s.charAt(end)<'A' || s.charAt(end)>'Z') && (s.charAt(end)>'9' || s.charAt(end)<'0' )) {
end--;
continue;
}
if (s.charAt(first) == s.charAt(end)) {
first++;
end--;
} else {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}