/** * 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.concat(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 Integer.toString(firstSegment).concat(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){ char[] charArr = inputValue.toCharArray(); int charIndex; if(charArr.length % 2 == 0) { charIndex = (charArr.length / 2) - 1; } else { charIndex = (charArr.length / 2); } return charArr[charIndex]; } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces * @return the first sequence of characters */ public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ int i = spaceDelimitedString.indexOf(" "); return spaceDelimitedString.substring(0, i); } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces. */ public static String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ int i = spaceDelimitedString.indexOf(" "); String wordTwo = spaceDelimitedString.substring(i+1); return wordTwo; } /** * @param stringToReverse * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order. * loop end to start of string, each loop concat to new string */ public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){ String revStr = ""; for(int i = stringToReverse.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) { revStr = revStr.concat(stringToReverse.substring(i, i+1)); } return revStr; } }