JavaAlgorithms/Others/Palindrome.java
2019-08-27 21:49:33 -04:00

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package Others;
class Palindrome {
private String reverseString(String x) { // *helper method
StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(x);
return output.reverse().toString();
}
public boolean FirstWay(String x) { // *palindrome method, returns true if palindrome
if (x == null || x.length() <= 1)
return true;
return x.equalsIgnoreCase(reverseString(x));
}
public boolean SecondWay(String x) {
if (x.length() == 0 || x.length() == 1)
return true;
if (x.charAt(0) != x.charAt(x.length() - 1))
return false;
return SecondWay(x.substring(1, x.length() - 1));
}
/**
* This method ignores all non-alphanumeric characters and case runs in O(n)
* where n is the length of s
*
* @param s String to check
* @return true if s is palindrome else false
*/
public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
s = s.toLowerCase().trim();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
if (Character.isLetter(c) || Character.isDigit(c))
sb.append(c);
}
s = sb.toString();
int start = 0;
int end = s.length() - 1;
while (start <= end) {
if (s.charAt(start++) != s.charAt(end--))
return false;
}
return true;
}
}