/** * Created by dan on 6/14/17. */ public class StringUtilities { /** * @return `Hello World` as a string */ public static 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 static String concatenation(String firstSegment, String secondSegment){ return firstSegment + secondSegment; } /** * @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 static String concatenation(int firstSegment, String secondSegment){ String str1 = Integer.toString(firstSegment); return firstSegment + secondSegment; } /** * @param input a string to be manipulated * @return the first 3 characters of `input` */ public static String getPrefix(String input){ return input.substring(0,3); } /** * @param input a string to be manipulated * @return the last 3 characters of `input` */ public static String getSuffix(String input){ return input.substring(input.length()-3); } /** * @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 static Boolean compareTwoStrings(String inputValue, String comparableValue){ return inputValue == comparableValue; } /** * @param inputValue the value input from user * @return the middle character of `inputValue` */ public static Character getMiddleCharacter(String inputValue){ return inputValue.charAt((inputValue.length()-1) / 2); } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces * @return the first sequence of characters */ public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ String[] stringWords = spaceDelimitedString.split(" "); return stringWords[0]; } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces. */ public static String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ String[] stringWords = spaceDelimitedString.split(" "); return stringWords[1]; } /** * @param stringToReverse * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order. */ public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){ StringBuilder reverse = new StringBuilder(); for (int i = stringToReverse.length()-1; i >= 0; i--){ reverse.append(stringToReverse.charAt(i)); } return reverse.toString(); } }