Sunday, September 8, 2013

Valid Palindrome@leetcode

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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.
» Solve this problem

This problem reminds me of quicksort. There is one quicksort algorithm is start searching in both ends. Pick a pivot, if list[i]<pivot, i++, if(list[j]>pivot) j--. Until we found a pair of elements that they should swap. In this problem, it's the same. We set two pointers, to filter those elements that are not numbers or characters. Then compare.

PS: I learned the code from 水中的鱼

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