CR-MicroLabs-JavaFundamentals-DanDoBetterDrills/StringUtilities.java

 

/**
 * Created by Curtis on 10/18/18.
 */
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){
        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.equals(comparableValue);
    }

    /**
     * @param inputValue the value input from user
     * @return the middle character of `inputValue`
     */
    public static Character getMiddleCharacter(String inputValue){
        int halfOfStringLength = 0;
        if(inputValue.length() % 2 == 0) {
            halfOfStringLength = (inputValue.length() / 2) - 1;
        } else {
            halfOfStringLength = inputValue.length() / 2;
        }
            
        char middleCharacter = inputValue.charAt(halfOfStringLength);
        return middleCharacter;
    }

    /**
     * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces
     * @return the first sequence of characters
     */
    public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){
        String firstWord = " ";
        for(int i = 0; i < spaceDelimitedString.length(); i++) {
            if(Character.isWhitespace(spaceDelimitedString.charAt(i))) {
                firstWord = spaceDelimitedString.substring(0, i);
                break;
            }
        }
            
        return firstWord;
    }

    /**
     * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces
     * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces.
     */
    public static String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){
        String secondWord = " ";
        int beginningOfSecondWord = 0;
        //int endOfSecondWord = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < spaceDelimitedString.length(); i++) {
            if(Character.isWhitespace(spaceDelimitedString.charAt(i))) {
                beginningOfSecondWord = i;
                break;
            }
        }

        /*
        spaceDelimitedString = spaceDelimitedString.substring(beginningOfSecondWord + 1, spaceDelimitedString.length() - 1);
        for(int i = 0; i < spaceDelimitedString.length(); i++) {
            if(!Character.isWhitespace(spaceDelimitedString.charAt(i))) {
                endOfSecondWord = i;
                break;
            }
        }       
        secondWord = spaceDelimitedString.substring(beginningOfSecondWord, endOfSecondWord);
        */
       
        secondWord = spaceDelimitedString.substring(beginningOfSecondWord + 1, spaceDelimitedString.length());
        return secondWord;
    }

    /**
     * @param stringToReverse
     * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order.
     */
    public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){
        StringBuilder reverseOrder = new StringBuilder();
        for(int i = 0; i < stringToReverse.length(); i++) {
            reverseOrder.insert(0, stringToReverse.charAt(i));
        }
        return reverseOrder.toString();
    }
}