125. Valid Palindrome (Easy) (https://leetcode.com/problems/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. Constraints: - 1 <= s.length <= 2 * 10^5 - s consists only of printable ASCII characters.

function isPalindrome(s: string): boolean {
  const lc = s.toLocaleLowerCase().replace(/[^a-zA-Z\d]/g, "");
  return lc === lc.split("").reverse().join("");
}
Example 1:
 
    Input: s = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
    Output: true
    Explanation: "amanaplanacanalpanama" is a palindrome.
 
  Example 2:
 
    Input: s = "race a car"
    Output: false
    Explanation: "raceacar" is not a palindrome.
 
  Example 3:
 
    Input: s = " "
    Output: true
    Explanation: s is an empty string "" after removing non-alphanumeric characters.
    Since an empty string reads the same forward and backward, it is a palindrome.

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