680. Valid Palindrome II

Given a non-empty string s, you may delete at most one character. Judge whether you can make it a
palindrome.

Example 1:

Input: "aba"
Output: True

Example 2:

Input: "abca"
Output: True
Explanation: You could delete the character 'c'.

Note:

    The string will only contain lowercase characters a-z. The maximum length of the string is 50000.
  • easy
class Solution {
    public boolean validPalindrome(String s) {
        int l = 0, r = s.length()-1;
        boolean deleted = false;
        while(l < r) {
            if(s.charAt(l) == s.charAt(r)) {
                l++;
                r--;
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
        if(l >= r) return true;
        return check(s, l+1, r) || check(s, l, r-1);
    }

    public boolean check(String s, int l, int r) {
        while(l < r) {
            if(s.charAt(l++) != s.charAt(r--)) return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
}