/** * Created by dan on 6/14/17. */ public class StringUtilities { /** * @return `Hello World` as a string */ public String getHelloWorld() { return "Hello World"; } /** * @param firstSegment a string to be added to * @param secondSegment a string to add * @return the concatenation of two strings, `firstSegment`, and `secondSegment` */ public String concatenation(String firstSegment, String secondSegment){ String concatStr = firstSegment + secondSegment; return concatStr; } /** * @param firstSegment a string to be added to * @param secondSegment a string to add * @return the concatenation of an integer, `firstSegment`, and a String, `secondSegment` */ public String concatenation(int firstSegment, String secondSegment){ String concatIntStr = Integer.toString(firstSegment) + secondSegment; return concatIntStr; } /** * @param input a string to be manipulated * @return the first 3 characters of `input` */ public String getPrefix(String input){ String preStr = input.substring(0, 3); return preStr; } /** * @param input a string to be manipulated * @return the last 3 characters of `input` */ public String getSuffix(String input){ String suffStr = input.substring(input.length() - 3); return suffStr; } /** * @param inputValue the value to be compared * @param comparableValue the value to be compared against * @return the equivalence of two strings, `inputValue` and `comparableValue` */ public Boolean compareTwoStrings(String inputValue, String comparableValue){ Boolean same = inputValue.equals(comparableValue); return same; } /** * @param inputValue the value input from user * @return the middle character of `inputValue` */ public Character getMiddleCharacter(String inputValue){ int middle = inputValue.length() / 2; if (middle % 2 == 0) { middle -= 1; } return inputValue.charAt(middle); } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces * @return the first sequence of characters */ public String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ String[] words = spaceDelimitedString.split(" "); return words[0]; } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces. */ public String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ String[] words = spaceDelimitedString.split(" "); return words[1]; } /** * @param stringToReverse * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order. */ public String reverse(String stringToReverse){ String reverse = ""; int strLength = stringToReverse.length(); for (int i = 0; i < strLength; i++) { reverse += stringToReverse.charAt(strLength - i - 1); } return reverse; } /** * @param input * @return an identical string with spaces removed. */ public String removeWhitespace(String input){ String returnStr = ""; for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) { if (input.charAt(i) != ' ') { returnStr += input.charAt(i); } } return returnStr; } /** * @param input * @return an identical string with spaces in the front and end removed. */ public String trim(String input){ return input.trim(); } }