Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.
Note: For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.
Example 1:
Input: "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" Output: true
Example 2:
Input: "race a car" Output: false
class Solution {
//alphanumeric characters:字母或数字
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
int head = 0;
int tail = s.length()-1;
char chead;
char ctail;
while(head<tail){
chead = s.charAt(head);
ctail = s.charAt(tail);
if( !Character.isLetterOrDigit(chead) ){
head++;
}
else if( !Character.isLetterOrDigit(ctail) ){
tail--;
}
else{
if( Character.toLowerCase(chead)!=Character.toLowerCase(ctail) ) return false;
head++;
tail--;
}
}
return true;
}
}