Valid Palindrome

Problem

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.

Solution

/**
 * @param {string} s
 * @return {boolean}
 */
var isPalindrome = function(s) {
    const phrase = s.toLowerCase().replaceAll(/[^a-z0-9]/g, "");
    let l = 0;
    let r = phrase.length - 1;

    while (l < r) {
        if (phrase[l++] !== phrase[r--]) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
};

Remove all non-alphanumeric characters from s and test if resulting phrase is a palindrome.