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.
public class Solution { public boolean isPalindrome(String s) { int low = 0; int high = s.length()-1; while(low<high){ if(!check(s.charAt(low))){ low++;continue; }else if(!check(s.charAt(high))){ high--;continue; }else{ if(s.charAt(low)!=s.charAt(high)&&s.charAt(low)-s.charAt(high)!=32 && s.charAt(high)-s.charAt(low)!=32){ return false; }else{ low++;high--; } } } return true; } public boolean check(char c){ if(c>='a'&&c<='z' || c>='A'&&c<='Z' || c>='0'&&c<='9') return true; return false; } }