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 isCharacter(char c){
if(c >='0' && c<= '9' || c >= 'a' && c <= 'z' || c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
return true;
return false;
}
bool isEqual(char a, char b){
if(a == b)
return true;
if(a > b)
return (a - b) == 'a' - 'A';
else
return (b - a) == 'a' - 'A';
}
bool isPalindrome(string s) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
int i = 0, j = s.length()-1;
while( i < j){
if(!isCharacter(s[i]))
i++;
else if(!isCharacter(s[j]))
j--;
else {
if(!isEqual(s[i++], s[j--]))
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
};