Non alphabetical palindrome

1

Am I right in thinking that
(“0_0 (: /-\ :slight_smile: 0-0”)

is not a palindrome? The character between the first two zeros is an underline “_”. The character between the last two zeros is a dash “-”. Don’t the those two characters need to be identical to satisfy the palindrome requirement?

The editor is turning the : + ) characters into a smiley face, by the way, and I don’t know how to prevent this.

2

Note
You’ll need to remove all non-alphanumeric characters (punctuation, spaces and symbols) and turn everything lower case in order to check for palindromes.

3

understood. but the term above (but not with an emoticon) is given in the FCC challenge.

4

I think I know what you’re saying. The code should make everything lower case, which will eliminate the difference.

Tricky.

Thank you.