/** * 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 n = Integer.toString(firstSegment); return n + 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 post; int leng; if (inputValue.length()% 2 == 1){ post=inputValue.length()/2; leng= 1; } else { post=inputValue.length()/2-1; leng = 2; } String mid = inputValue.substring(post, post + leng); char output = mid.charAt(0); return output;//inputValue.charAt(inputValue.length()/2); } /** a * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces * @return the first sequence of characters */ public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ int str= spaceDelimitedString.indexOf(" "); String word = spaceDelimitedString.substring(0, str); return word ; } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces. */ public static String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ /**int word = spaceDelimitedString.indexOf(" "); int word1 = spaceDelimitedString.indexOf("", word ); String secondWord=spaceDelimitedString.substring(word , word1); return secondWord;*/ return spaceDelimitedString.split(" ")[1]; } /** * @param stringToReverse * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order. */ public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){ String reverse=""; for(int i = stringToReverse.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) { reverse = reverse+ stringToReverse.charAt(i); } return reverse; } }