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🔥Valid Palindrome: Clean String SymmetryEasy
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Valid Palindrome: Clean String Symmetry
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Real-World Engineering Context
DNA bioinformatics palindrome sequence matching and search query sanitization in Elasticsearch.
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.
Return `true` if it is a palindrome, or `false` otherwise.
Sample Test Cases
Input: ["A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"]
Expected: true
Input: ["race a car"]
Expected: false
Input: [" "]
Expected: true
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 2 * 10^5
- s consists only of printable ASCII characters.
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