19. Valid Palindrome

题目

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.

解题之法

class Solution {
public:
bool isPalindrome(string s) {
    for (int i = 0, j = s.size() - 1; i < j; i++, j--) { // Move 2 pointers from each end until they collide
        while (isalnum(s[i]) == false && i < j) i++; // Increment left pointer if not alphanumeric
        while (isalnum(s[j]) == false && i < j) j--; // Decrement right pointer if no alphanumeric
        if (toupper(s[i]) != toupper(s[j])) return false; // Exit and return error if not match
    }
    
    return true;
}
};