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.

class Solution {
public:
    bool isPalindrome(string s) {
        if(s.length()<=1)
            return true;
            
        int start = 0;
        int end = s.length()-1;
        while(start<end){
            while(start<end&&!isValid(s[start]))
                start++;
            while(start<end&&!isValid(s[end]))
                end--;
            if(start>=end)
                break;
            if(s[start] != s[end] && abs(s[start] - s[end]) != abs('A'-'a')){
                return false;
            }else{
                start++;
                end--;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
    
    bool isValid(char c){
        if(c>='a'&&c<='z')
            return true;
        if(c>='A'&&c<='Z')
            return true;
        if(c>='0'&&c<='9')
            return true;
        return false;
    }
};