Valid Palindrome.cpp

/*
Valid Palindrome
================

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

Constraints:
s consists only of printable ASCII characters.

*/

class Solution
{
public:
  bool isPalindrome(string s)
  {
    int start = 0, end = s.length() - 1;
    while (start < end)
    {
      if (!isalnum(s[start]))
        start++;
      else if (!isalnum(s[end]))
        end--;
      else
      {
        if (tolower(s[start++]) != tolower(s[end--]))
          return false;
      }
    }
    return true;
  }
};