[勇者闯LeetCode] 125. Valid Palindrome

[勇者闯LeetCode] 125. Valid Palindrome

Description

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.

Information

• Tags: Tow Pointers | String
• Difficulty: Easy

Solution

使用两个指针分别从字符串的首尾开始扫描，若两个指针所指向的字母不相等则返回False，否则分别寻找下一个字母进行比较，当两个指针相遇时返回True。

Python Code

class Solution(object):
    def isPalindrome(self, s):
        """
        :type s: str
        :rtype: bool
        """
        left, right = 0, len(s)-1
        while left < right:
            while left < right and not s[left].isalnum():
                left += 1
            while left < right and not s[right].isalnum():
                right -= 1
            if s[left].lower() != s[right].lower():
                return False
            left += 1
            right -= 1
        return True