LeetCode 125. Valid Palindrome

描述
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.

分析
将字符串转换为小写格式，便于统一比较。
自动跳过非数字字母的字符。

代码

class Solution {
public:
    bool isPalindrome(string s) {
        transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), ::tolower);
        auto left = s.begin(), right = prev(s.end());

        while (left < right) {
            if (!::isalnum(*left)) ++left;
            else if (!::isalnum(*right)) --right;
            else if (*left != *right) return false;
            else {
                ++left;
                --right;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }
};