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)
{
int n = s.length();
if(n==0 || n==1)
return true;
int i=0,j=n-1;
while(i<=j)
{
if(s[i] < '0' || (s[i] >'9' && s[i]<'A') || (s[i]>'Z' && s[i] <'a') || s[i]>'z')
{
i++;
continue;
}
if(s[j]<'0' || (s[j]> '9' && s[j]<'A') || (s[j]>'Z' && s[j] <'a') || s[j]>'z')
{
j--;
continue;
}
if(s[i]==s[j] || abs(s[i] - s[j])==32)
{
i++;
j--;
}
else
return false;
}
return true;
}
};