Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

Checking palindrome for first half of the string with the rest, this case assumes removal of any white spaces.

public int isPalindrome(String a) {
        //Remove all spaces and non alpha characters
        String ab = a.replaceAll("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "").toLowerCase();
        //System.out.println(ab);

        for (int i=0; i