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.
class Solution {
public:
bool isA(char c){
return c>='a'&&c<='z'||c>='A'&&c<='Z'||c>='0'&&c<='9';
}
char lower(char c){
if(c>='A'&&c<='Z')return c-'A'+'a';
return c;
}
bool isPalindrome(string s) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
if(s.length()<=1)return true;
int start=0,end=s.length()-1;
while(true){
while(start<s.length()&&!isA(s[start])){
start++;
}
while(end>=0&&!isA(s[end])){
end--;
}
if(start>end)break;
if(lower(s[start])!=lower(s[end]))return false;
start++;
end--;
}
return true;
}
};