Answer to Question #42159 in C++ for thabo Moletsane

Question #42159

A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards, character for character,disregarding punctuation, case or spaces. Some examples are "racecar", "madam,I'm Adam".Write a program that allows the user to input a word or phrase and then determines if it is a palindrome.The program should use a Boolean Function procedure named Palindrome that returns the value True when the word or phrase is a palindrome and the value False otherwise

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//Answer on Question #42159 - Programming - C++&nbsp;
#include &lt;algorithm&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include &lt;string&gt;
#include &lt;cctype&gt;
using namespace std;
bool notIsalnum(int c) {
    return !::isalnum(c);
}
bool Palindrome(const string&amp; phrase) {
    string s = phrase;
    s.erase(remove_if(s.begin(), s.end(), notIsalnum), s.end());
    transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(), ::toupper);
    return s == string(s.rbegin(), s.rend());
}
int main() {
    cout &lt;&lt; &quot;Input word or phrase: &quot; &lt;&lt; endl;
    string phrase;
    getline(cin, phrase);
    cout &lt;&lt; &quot;\&quot;&quot; &lt;&lt; phrase &lt;&lt; &quot;\&quot; is &quot;;
    if (!Palindrome(phrase)) cout &lt;&lt; &quot;not &quot;;
    cout &lt;&lt; &quot;a palindrome&quot; &lt;&lt; endl;
}