/** * 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){ 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){ char result; int len= inputValue.length(); int pos; if(len%2==0) { pos=(len/2) -1 ; } else { pos=len/2; } return inputValue.charAt(pos); } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces * @return the first sequence of characters */ public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ return spaceDelimitedString.split(" ")[0]; } /** * @param spaceDelimitedString a string delimited by spaces * @return the second word of a string delimited by spaces. */ public static String getSecondWord(String spaceDelimitedString){ return spaceDelimitedString.split(" ")[1]; } /** * @param stringToReverse * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order. */ public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){ char[] str1= stringToReverse.toCharArray(); String result=""; for(int i= str1.length-1; i>=0;i--) {result= result+ str1[i];} return result; } }