Valid Palindrome

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
Inputs = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
Outputtrue
"amanaplanacanalpanama" is a palindrome.
Example 2
Inputs = "race a car"
Outputfalse
"raceacar" is not a palindrome.

Constraints

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

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