【问题描述】
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.
【思路】
使用两个指针,i指向头,j指向尾,依次向中间移动,进行比较,时间复杂度为O(n)
【code】
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
int i = 0, j = s.length() - 1;
s = s.toLowerCase();
while (i < j) {
char c = s.charAt(i);
char cc = s.charAt(j);
if (!isValid(c)) {
i++;
}else if (!isValid(cc)) {
j--;
}else {
if (c == cc) {
i++;
j--;
}else {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
private static boolean isValid(char c) {
if ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
|| (c >= '0' && c <= '9')) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
}