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Practice Valid Palindrome

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Easy#125
LeetCode Problem

Valid Palindrome

Problem Statement

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.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
s = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
Output
true

# Example 2

Input
s = "race a car"
Output
false

# Example 3

Input
s = " "
Output
true

Constraints

1 <= s.length <= 2 * 10^5
s consists only of printable ASCII characters.

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