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 considered that the string might be empty? This is a good question to ask during an interview.
For the purpose of this problem, we define the empty string as the valid palindrome.
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
if(s == null) return false;
int i = 0;
int j = s.length() - 1;
while(i < j){
if(!isAlphanumeric(s.charAt(i))){
i++;
continue;
}
if(!isAlphanumeric(s.charAt(j))){
j--;
continue;
}
if(Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(i)) == Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(j))){
i++;
j--;
continue;
}
return false;
}
return true;
}
public boolean isAlphanumeric(char c){
if((c >= 'A'&& c <= 'Z')||(c >= 'a'&&c <= 'z')||(c >= '0'&&c <= '9')) return true;
else return false;
}
}