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 Integer.toString(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.equals(comparableValue);
    }

    /**
     * @param inputValue the value input from user
     * @return the middle character of `inputValue`
     */
    public static Character getMiddleCharacter(String inputValue){
        int middleVal = (inputValue.length() / 2);
        
        if ( middleVal % 2 == 0) {
            return inputValue.charAt(middleVal - 1);
        } else {
            return inputValue.charAt(middleVal);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param spaceDelimitedString a string, representative of a sentence, containing spaces
     * @return the first sequence of characters
     */
    public static String getFirstWord(String spaceDelimitedString){
        // Split the string at " "
        String words[] = spaceDelimitedString.split(" ");
        // return the first word/set of characters before that " "
        
        return words[0];
    }

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

    /**
     * @param stringToReverse
     * @return an identical string with characters in reverse order.
     */
    public static String reverse(String stringToReverse){
        String words = "";
        for (int i = stringToReverse.length() -1; i >= 0; i --) {
            words += Character.toString(stringToReverse.charAt(i));  
        }
        return words;
    }
}