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:
int isChar(char c) {
if (c >= 'a'&& c <= 'z') {
return c;
} else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') {
return c + 'a' - 'A';
} else if (c >= '0' && c <= '9'){
return c;
} else {
return -1;
}
}
bool isPalindrome(string s) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
int low = 0;
int high = s.size() - 1;
while (low <= high) {
while (low < high && -1 == isChar(s[low])) ++low;
while (low < high && -1 == isChar(s[high])) --high;
if (low <= high) {
if (isChar(s[low]) == isChar(s[high])) {
++low;
--high;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
};