125. Valid Palindrome

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.

public class Solution {
    public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
        if(s == null) {
            return true;
        }
        s = s.toLowerCase();
        int len = s.length();
        for(int i = 0, j = len - 1; i < j; i++, j--) {
            char a = s.charAt(i);
            while(i < j && (a < 'a' || a > 'z') && (a < '0' || a > '9')) {
                i++;
                a = s.charAt(i);
            }
            char b = s.charAt(j);
            while(i < j && (b < 'a' || b > 'z') && (b < '0' || b > '9')) {
                j--;
                b = s.charAt(j);
            }
            if(a != b) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}