Leetcode 125. Valid Palindrome (Easy) (cpp)

Leetcode 125. Valid Palindrome (Easy) (cpp)

Tag: Math

Difficulty: Easy

/*

125. Valid Palindrome (Easy)

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 isPalindrome(string s) {
        int left = 0, right = s.length() - 1;
        while (left < right) {
        	while (!isalnum(s[left]) && left < right) 
        		left++;
        	while (!isalnum(s[right]) && left < right)
        		right--;
        	if (tolower(s[left++]) != tolower(s[right--]))
        		return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
};