0125 Valid Palindrome
Solved at: 2022-07-14 and 2022-07-26
Question
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.
Solution
This is a simple recursion problem.
class Solution:
def prune(self, s: str) -> str:
answer = ""
for c in s:
lc = c.lower()
if ord(lc) >= ord("a") and ord(lc) <= ord("z"):
answer += lc
if ord(lc) >= ord("0") and ord(lc) <= ord("9"):
answer += lc
return answer
def palindromeCore(self, s: str) -> bool:
if len(s) <= 1:
return True
else:
return (s[0] == s[-1]) and self.palindromeCore(s[1:-1])
def isPalindrome(self, s: str) -> bool:
s = self.prune(s)
print(s)
if len(s) <= 1:
return True
return self.palindromeCore(s)But I got Memory Limit Exceeded.
Improved
So I fixed it with a loop-based solution.
class Solution:
def prune(self, s: str) -> str:
answer = ""
for c in s:
lc = c.lower()
if ord(lc) >= ord("a") and ord(lc) <= ord("z"):
answer += lc
if ord(lc) >= ord("0") and ord(lc) <= ord("9"):
answer += lc
return answer
def isPalindrome(self, s: str) -> bool:
s = self.prune(s)
if len(s) <= 1:
return True
for idx, c in enumerate(s):
if s[idx] != s[len(s) - idx - 1]:
return False
if idx >= len(s)//2:
return True
return TrueResults
Runtime
- 120 ms, faster than 10.41% of Python3 online submissions for Valid Palindrome.
Memory Usage
- 14.7 MB, less than 42.81% of Python3 online submissions for Valid Palindrome.
Other Answers Online
class Solution:
def isPalindrome(self, s: str) -> bool:
n = s.replace(' ','').lower()
s = ''.join(c for c in n if c.isalnum())
p = 0
q = len(s) - 1
while p < q:
if s[p] != s[q]:
return False
else:
p += 1
q -= 1
return True- Didn't know there was
c.isalnum().