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.
java:
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
if (s == null){
return true;
}
else if (s.length()==0){
return true;
}
int i = 0;
int j = s.length()-1;
while (i<=j){
if (!AlNum(s.charAt(i))){
i++;
}
else if (!AlNum(s.charAt(j))){
j--;
}
else if (Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(i)) == Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(j))){
i++;
j--;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
public boolean AlNum(char abc){
if (abc >= 'a' && abc <= 'z'){
return true;
}
else if (abc >= 'A' && abc <= 'Z'){
return true;
}
else if (abc >= '0' && abc <= '9'){
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
}