Valid Palindrome

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A phrase is a palindrome if, after converting uppercase to lowercase and removing all non-alphanumeric characters, it reads the same forward and backward. Given a string s, return true if it is a palindrome.

Example 1

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

Example 2

Input:  s = "race a car"
Output: false

Constraints

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