[LeetCode 125] Valid Palindrome

https://leetcode.com/problems/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.

这题比较常规，思路也很简单，就是 two pointers。一根指针指向字符串的开始位置，另一根指针指向字符串的结束位置。当中使用 while 循环忽略掉 non-alphanumeric 字符即可。来看下面代码：

class Solution {

public:

    bool isPalindrome(string s) {

        string::const_iterator left = s.cbegin();

        string::const_iterator right = s.cend() - 1;

        

        while (left < right) {

            

            // 忽略掉 non-alphanumeric 字符 

            while (left < right && !isalnum(*left)) {

                left++;

            }

            while (left < right && !isalnum(*right)) {

                right--;

            }

            

            if (tolower(*left) != tolower(*right)) {

                return false;

            } else {

                left++;

                right--;

            }

        }

        

        return true;

        

    }

};