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Palindromes

public java v1 · immutable
#464472 ·published 2007-04-29 15:08 UTC
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// Summary: Palindromes program.// Sorry for the messy code, wanted to do this all in a single method.// I could probably make this into a method that just accepts a string and returns a boolean.import java.lang.reflect.*;public class Testpal{    public static void main(String[] args){    String testing = "Campus Motto: Bottos up, Mac";  // Put string to be tested here.        // Now we read the string into an array, excluding any punctuation, and converting it all to lowercase.    char isitletter = ' ';    int testinglength = testing.length();    char[] testarray = new char[testinglength];    int arrayposition = 1;    int blankspots = 0;    for(short x=0; x<testinglength; x++){        System.out.print("Character Index: " + x);        isitletter = testing.charAt(x);        System.out.println(" " + isitletter);        boolean letter = Character.isLetter(isitletter);        boolean lower = Character.isLowerCase(isitletter);        System.out.println("IsLetter? " + letter + " Lowercase? " + lower);        if(letter == true){            if(lower == false){                isitletter = Character.toLowerCase(isitletter);                System.out.println("arraypos " + arrayposition);                Array.set(testarray, arrayposition, isitletter);                arrayposition++;                }            else{                System.out.println("else" + arrayposition);                Array.set(testarray, arrayposition, isitletter);                 arrayposition++;                }        }        else{blankspots++;}        }        // Now to check for palindromes.    int first = 0;    int last = Array.getLength(testarray) - blankspots;    System.out.println("Array Length = " + last);    int middleofarray = last/2;    char test1 = ' ';    char test2 = ' ';    int verdict = 0;    for(short i=1; i<=middleofarray; i++){    test1 = Array.getChar(testarray, i);    test2 = Array.getChar(testarray, last);        System.out.println(test1 + " " + test2);    // Check whether chars are same    if(test1 == test2){System.out.println(test1 + " " + test2 + " Maybe....");}    else{verdict = 1;break;}    last = last - 1;    }    if (verdict == 1){System.out.println(testing + " is NOT a Palindrome.");}    else {System.out.println(testing + " IS a Palindrome.");}            }}