Valid Palindrome
Jan 13
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) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
if( s.size() == 0 ) return true;
int sz = s.size();
int i = 0, j=sz-1;
while(i<j) {
while( !isValid(s[i]) && i<j) i++;
while( !isValid(s[j]) && i<j) j--;
if(i>=j) break;
if( s[i] != s[j] ) return false;
else {
++i;
--j;
}
}
return true;
}
private:
bool isValid( char & c) {
c = lowerCase(c);
if( c>='0' && c<='9' ) return true;
if( c>='a' && c<='z' ) return true;
if( c>='A' && c<='Z' ) return true;
return false;
}
char lowerCase( char c) {
if( c>='A' && c<='Z') return c + 'a' - 'A';
else return c;
}
};
public class Solution {
public boolean isPalindrome(String str) {
// Start typing your Java solution below
// DO NOT write main() function
//input check
char[] s = str.toCharArray();
int sz = s.length;
if(sz<1) return true;
int i=0;
int j= sz-1;
while(i<j) {
while( i<j && !isValid(s[i]) ) ++i;
while( i<j && !isValid(s[j]) ) --j;
if( s[i] >= 'A' && s[i]<='Z') s[i] += 'a'-'A';
if( s[j] >= 'A' && s[j]<='Z') s[j] += 'a'-'A';
if(i<j && s[i] != s[j]) {
return false;
}
++i;
--j;
}
return true;
}
private boolean 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;
}
}