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#125 Valid Palindrome

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Problem Description

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.

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

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Case #1

In: s = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
Out: true

Case #2

In: s = "race a car"
Out: false

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