Question:
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.
//********** Hints ************
两个指针向中间遍历,碰到非0~9或非a~z就跳过,比较简单
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Solution:
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
if(s.length() == 0)
return true;
s = s.toLowerCase();
int i = 0;
int j = s.length()-1;
while(i < j){
if(!checker(s.charAt(i)))
++i;
else if(!checker(s.charAt(j)))
--j;
else{
if(s.charAt(i)!= s.charAt(j))
return false;
else{
++i;
--j;
}
}
}
return true;
}
boolean checker(char c){
if( (c>='0'&&c<='9')||(c>='a'&&c<='z'))
return true;
else return false;
}
}