Merge pull request neetcode-gh#2417 from krishna1m/0125-valid-palindrome

krishna1m · web-flow · commit 3f8db60348c8 · 2023-07-06T11:32:32.000+05:30
Create 0125-valid-palindrome.scala
diff --git a/scala/0125-valid-palindrome.scala b/scala/0125-valid-palindrome.scala
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+object Solution {
+  def isPalindrome(s: String): Boolean = {
+    val smallCased = s.toLowerCase
+    // removing all non-alphanumeric characters
+    val notAlphaNumericRegex = """[\W_]""".r
+    val toCompareWith = notAlphaNumericRegex.replaceAllIn(smallCased, "")
+
+    val reversed = toCompareWith.reverse
+    toCompareWith == reversed
+  }
+}
