Sunday, January 20, 2013

Reverse a String using String buffer, Iteration and Recursion

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.IOException;

public class StringReverseExample {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {

        //original string
        String str = "Sony is going to introduce Internet TV soon";
        System.out.println("Original String: " + str);

        //reversed string using Stringbuffer
        String reverseStr = new StringBuffer(str).reverse().toString();
        System.out.println("Reverse String in Java using StringBuffer: " + reverseStr);

        //iterative method to reverse String in Java
        reverseStr = reverse(str);
        System.out.println("Reverse String in Java using Iteration: " + reverseStr);

        //recursive method to reverse String in Java
        reverseStr = reverseRecursively(str);
        System.out.println("Reverse String in Java using Recursion: " + reverseStr);
    }

    public static String reverse(String str) {
        StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        char[] strChars = str.toCharArray();

        for (int i = strChars.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            strBuilder.append(strChars[i]);
        }

        return strBuilder.toString();
    }

    public static String reverseRecursively(String str) {

        //base case to handle one char string and empty string
        if (str.length() < 2) {
            return str;
        }
        return reverseRecursively(str.substring(1)) + str.charAt(0);

    }
}

Recursive solution is just for demonstrative and education purpose, don’t use recursive solution in production code as it may result in StackOverFlowError if String to be reversed is very long String or if you have any bug in your reverse function, anyway its good test to make yourself comfortable with recursive functions in java.

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