125. Valid Palindrome【双指针】
2017/3/15 21:47:04
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:判断回文串,利用双指针在两边向中间靠拢,依次判断两边指针指向的字符是否相等。
注意1.只能包含字母或数字;2.统一成大写或小写字母;
版本1 O(n)
public class Solution { public boolean isPalindrome(String s) { for ( int i=0,j=s.length()-1;i<j; ) if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(i)) && Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(j)) ) if (Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(i)) != Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(j))) return false; else{ i++;j--; } else if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(i))) i++; else if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(j))) j--; return true; } }
耗时13ms,排名仅仅中间,toLowerCase函数比较耗时,需要多次调用函数,所以直接判断字符的差是否是32即可(‘0’和'P'也是差32~)。
版本2 耗时12ms,没多少区别。
public class Solution { public boolean isPalindrome(String s) { for ( int i=0,j=s.length()-1;i<j; ) if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(i)) && Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(j)) ){ if (s.charAt(i) == s.charAt(j) || (s.charAt(i)>64 && s.charAt(j)>64 && Math.abs(s.charAt(i) - s.charAt(j)) == 32) ){i++;j--;continue;}; return false; } else if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(i))) i++; else if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(s.charAt(j))) j--; return true; } }
版本3 (参考discuss) 利用正则表达式直接过滤非字母数字字符,简化代码。 41ms
public class Solution { public boolean isPalindrome(String s) { String actual = s.replaceAll("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "").toLowerCase(); return new StringBuffer(actual).reverse().toString().equals(actual); } }