Leetcode 125. Valid Palindrome

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.

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思路：要比较的是字符串中的数字和字母，注意字母的大小写是不区分的。头尾2个指针，遇到非数字或者非字母的位置就直接跳过。Java中Character.isLetterOrDigit()来判断当前字符是否为数字或者字母，Character.toLowerCase()将字母统一转换为小写，数字不变。

 

代码：

public class Solution {
    public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
        int len = s.length();
        for(int start = 0, end = len - 1; end > start; ) {
            if(!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(start))) {
                start++;
                continue;
            }
            if(!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(end))) {
                end--;
                continue;
            }
            if(Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(start)) != Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(end))) return false;
            start++;
            end--;
        }
        return true;
    }
}