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    Hello, I am new to these forums(This being my first post). I am a new programmer in C and I just needed some help in the right direction for a current project. I need to be able to test the input on whether or not it is a palindrome, and somehow ignores any blank or symbols, it only takes into account letters. Just in case someone doesn't know a palindrome is a word or phrase that is read the same from beginning to end. Example would be Amore Roma, as if you spelled it backwards it would still be the same. I am assuming this would need to be done with an array of char that some how matches the beginning and end of the line of codes. But I am having a hard time with how to start this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    You need to know how long the string is, then you just check "matching" letters for equality. Since you're ignoring spaces, you can't necessarily just directly compute the index of the "matching" letter as length-i, so you will have to keep track of a left index and a right index and move each of them appropriately.

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    The thing is the string itself can be any length, it needs to be kinda universal. I will post the code I currently wrote for it in a bit and explain my thought process throughout. Thanks so much for the quick reply!

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    I didn't mean that you should take the length as a constant; but any string has a length and you will need to start by figuring out what the length of the particular string you are working with is.

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    Or you could ignore spaces as you read the value in (don't store them in the input string). If you really need to be able to store "any length" of string then you'll need dynamic (re)allocation.
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