Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.
Note: For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.
Example 1:
Input: "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" Output: true
Example 2:
Input: "race a car" Output: false
class Solution {
public:
bool isPalindrome(string s)
{
int left = 0, right = s.size() - 1 ;
while (left < right)
{
if (!isAlphaNum(s[left]))
++left;
else if (!isAlphaNum(s[right]))
--right;
else if (tolower(s[left]) != tolower(s[right]))
return false;
else
{
++left; --right;
}
}
return true;
}
bool isAlphaNum(char &ch)
{
if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
return true;
if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z')
return true;
if (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')
return true;
return false;
}
};
public:
bool isPalindrome(string s)
{
int left = 0, right = s.size() - 1 ;
while (left < right)
{
if (!isAlphaNum(s[left]))
++left;
else if (!isAlphaNum(s[right]))
--right;
else if (tolower(s[left]) != tolower(s[right]))
return false;
else
{
++left; --right;
}
}
return true;
}
bool isAlphaNum(char &ch)
{
if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
return true;
if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z')
return true;
if (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')
return true;
return false;
}
};