ZCW-Lab-Fundamental-Methods/StringUtilities.java

/**
 * 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 result = firstSegment.concat(secondSegment);
        return result;
    }

    /**
     * @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 number = Integer.toString(firstSegment);
        String result = number.concat(secondSegment);
        return result;
    }

    /**
     * @param input a string to be manipulated
     * @return the first 3 characters of `input`
     */
    public String getPrefix(String input){
        String str = input.substring(0,3);
        return str;
    }

    /**
     * @param input a string to be manipulated
     * @return the last 3 characters of `input`
     */
    public String getSuffix(String input){
        String str = input.substring(input.length()-3);
        return str;
    }

    /**
     * @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 result = inputValue.equals(comparableValue);
        return result;
    }

    /**
     * @param inputValue the value input from user
     * @return the middle character of `inputValue`
     */
    public Character getMiddleCharacter(String inputValue){
        char midChar = inputValue.charAt(inputValue.length()/2);
        return midChar;
    }

    /**
     * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces
     * @return the first sequence of characters
     */
    public String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){
        int x = spaceDelimitedString.indexOf(' ');
        String firstWord = spaceDelimitedString.substring(0,x);
        
        return firstWord;
    }

    /**
     * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces
     * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces.
     */
    public String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){
        
        String secondWord = spaceDelimitedString.split("\\s+")[1];
        return secondWord;
    }

    /**
     * @param stringToReverse
     * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order.
     */
    public String reverse(String stringToReverse){
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(stringToReverse);
         builder.reverse();
      
        
         return builder.toString();
    }

    /**
     * @param input
     * @return an identical string with spaces removed.
     */
    public String removeWhitespace(String input){
        
        return input.replaceAll(" ","");
    }

    /**
     * @param input
     * @return an identical string with spaces in the front and end removed.
     */
    public String trim(String input){
        String word =  input.trim();
        return word;
    }
}