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We've done some stuff with palindromes before but let's change it up one more time. This time around we're going to create a function that takes in a string and determines if a string is a palindrome or not.

Comments:

• Andreas - 10 years, 3 months ago

  Allowing for whitespaces and punctuation within the string.

  def isPalindrome(str: String) = {
    val cleanedUp = str.replaceAll("[\\s\\p{Punct}]","").toLowerCase
    cleanedUp.equals(cleanedUp.reverse)
  }
  

  scala> isPalindrome("Rise to vote, sir!")

  res1: Boolean = true

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• Nick Krichevsky - 10 years, 3 months ago

  def palendrome(string):
      if string[::-1]==string:
          return True
      return False
  

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