package strings; /** Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome */ class Palindrome { /** Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { String[] palindromes = {null, "", "aba", "123321"}; for (String s : palindromes) { assert isPalindrome(s) && isPalindromeRecursion(s) && isPalindrome1(s); } String[] notPalindromes = {"abb", "abc", "abc123"}; for (String s : notPalindromes) { assert !isPalindrome(s) && !isPalindromeRecursion(s) && !isPalindrome1(s); } } /** * Check if a string is palindrome string or not * * @param s a string to check * @return {@code true} if given string is palindrome, otherwise {@code false} */ public static boolean isPalindrome(String s) { return (s == null || s.length() <= 1) || s.equals(new StringBuilder(s).reverse().toString()); } /** * Check if a string is palindrome string or not using recursion * * @param s a string to check * @return {@code true} if given string is palindrome, otherwise {@code false} */ public static boolean isPalindromeRecursion(String s) { if (s == null || s.length() <= 1) { return true; } if (s.charAt(0) != s.charAt(s.length() - 1)) { return false; } return isPalindrome(s.substring(1, s.length() - 1)); } /** * Check if a string is palindrome string or not another way * * @param s a string to check * @return {@code true} if given string is palindrome, otherwise {@code false} */ public static boolean isPalindrome1(String s) { if (s == null || s.length() <= 1) { return true; } for (int i = 0, j = s.length() - 1; i < j; ++i, --j) { if (s.charAt(i) != s.charAt(j)) { return false; } } return true; } }