Palindrome


A phrase is a palindrome if, after converting all uppercase letters into lowercase letters and removing all non-alphanumeric characters, it reads the same forward and backward. Alphanumeric characters include letters and numbers.

Given a string s, return true if it is a palindrome, or false otherwise.

Example 1:
Input: s = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
Output: true
Explanation: "amanaplanacanalpanama" is a palindrome.

Example 2:
Input: s = "race a car"
Output: false
Explanation: "raceacar" is not a palindrome.

Example 3:
Input: s = " "
Output: true
Explanation: s is an empty string "" after removing non-alphanumeric characters.
Since an empty string reads the same forward and backward, it is a palindrome.

Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 2 * 105
s consists only of printable ASCII characters.

1 Answer

1 year ago by

class Check
{
public boolean checker(String word)
{
String rev = "";
String s = word.toLowerCase();
for(int i=0; i<s.length(); i++)
{
char c = s.charAt(i);

        if(c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')
        {
            rev = rev+c;
        }
        if((c - '0') >= 0 && (c-'0') <=9)
        {
            rev = rev+c;
        }
    }

    int i =0;
    int j = rev.length()-1;
    while(i<j)
    {
        char charAtstart = rev.charAt(i);
        char charAtend = rev.charAt(j);
        
        if(Character.compare(charAtstart,charAtend)!=0)
        {
            return false;
        }
        i++;
        j--;
    }
    return true;
}

}
class Paldrm {

/**
 * @param args the command line arguments
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO code application logic here
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter string: ");
    String word = in.nextLine();
    Check c = new Check();
    System.out.println(c.checker(word));
    in.close();
}   

}

1 year ago by Shivesh Kumar