CR-MicroLabs-JavaFundamentals-DanDoBetterDrills/StringUtilities.java

 

/**
 * 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;
    }
}