Thread: Assign a loop to variable to compare strings

Hey everyone, so i am trying to write a program that takes the first letter of a string, concats it to the end of the string and can spell the original string backwards.

For example,
I have a string called
"grammar"
take the first letter "g" and add it to the end
"grammar"
g ----->

This equals "rammarg" which is "grammar" spelled backwards. Other examples are "revive, potato, uneven"

The end result is i have to compare the string backwards with the one that is concatenated

The issue that i am running in to is i can concat the first letter of the string to the end just fine, but when i use a loop to spell the word backwards i have no way of using that loop and applying it to a variable so i can compare the two strings.


I CAN'T use the "StringBuffer.reverse" method and have to use a loop to compare them

public static void main(String[]args)
	{
 
 
	//creates string called word
	String word;
 
	Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); // initalizes scanner
	System.out.println("Enter a word (type exit to end the program) :"); //prompts the user to enter in the word
	word = keyboard.next(); //allows the word to be taken in
 
 
 
 
 
 
		//Initialize first character of the string word
		char wordfc = word.charAt(0);
 
 
		//convert from character to string
		String firstchar = Character.toString(wordfc);
 
		//word with first char gone
		String last = word.substring(1);
 
		//letter at end // adds the first character of wordfc to the end of the substring last
		String lae = last.concat(firstchar);
		//System.out.println(lae);
 
 
 
 
              // This is the loop(below) that prints the word backwards, 
              //how would i assign this to a variable to compare to "lae" which is the "word" concatenated. 
 
 
                int i = word.length()-1;
 
         	for( ; i>=0; )
	        {
 
		         System.out.print( word.charAt(i--));
 
	         }
 
		/*I am basically wanting this loop above to compare to lae as in
 
                if(lae.equals(stringbw))
                {
                 Syso("yes') 
                }
                 else
                 Syso("no")
		*/

Thank you all in advanced for your help!

You could declare the String stringbw as an empty string and use your loop to append the characters to it instead of (or as well as) printing them.

Alternatively if you don't want to actually print stringbw then you could use a single loop to compare each character of lae with the corresponding character from the other end of word. "grammar" has length 7, so your loop would compare lae[0] with word[6-0], lae[1] with word[6-1], ..., lae[6] with word[6-6].

Thank you so much for the help! i was able to get my program 99% done. I have only one print statement that is not printing when i want it to.

So after it tests the loop, it will say "yes" just fine if indeed the parameters above are true. The only thing i cant figure out is where to put the statement "no" if it does not work.

 
 
import java.util.*;
 
public class Words
{
 
 
 
	public static void main(String[]args)
	{
		String word;//creates string called word
		Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); // Initializes scanner
		System.out.println("Enter a word (type exit to end the program) :"); //prompts the user to enter in the word
		word = keyboard.next(); //allows the word to be taken in
 
 
 
 
		while(!word.equalsIgnoreCase("exit"))
		{
 
 
 
 
		//Initialize first character
		char wordfc = word.charAt(0);
 
 
		//convert from character to string
		String firstchar = Character.toString(wordfc);
 
		//word with first char gone
		String last = word.substring(1);
 
		//letter at end // adds the first character of wordfc to the end of the substring last
		String lae = last.concat(firstchar);
		//System.out.println(lae);
 
 
 
 
			char wordd , laeword;
 
 
			int numlae = 0;
			int numword = 0;
			int length = word.length()-1;
 
			wordd = word.charAt(length - numword);
 
			laeword = lae.charAt(numlae);	 
 
 
			while(wordd == laeword)
			{
 
				System.out.println("yes");
				numword++;
				laeword++;
 
 
			}
 
 
			System.out.println("Enter a word (type exit to end the program):");
			word = keyboard.next();
 
		}
 
		System.out.println("Bye");
 
 
 
 
 
 
	}
}

So basically at the end of each occurrence when it is true it will print yes, but i don't know where to put the statement for it to say "no" if it equals false.

Thank you so much for your help! you have no idea how much you helped me out!!!

First there seems to be something wrong with the logic

wordd = word.charAt(length - numword);
laeword = lae.charAt(numlae);    
 
while(wordd == laeword)
{
    System.out.println("yes");
    numword++;
    laeword++;
}

You should be checking each pair of characters. Since you already know how many comparison need to be made, a for loop might be easiest:

for(int numword = 0; numword < ???: numword++)
{
    char wordd = ???;
    char laeword= ???;
    // now compare them
}

As for reporting your answer, think about *when* you know the answer. The chances are you will know that a word fails the test (if it does) well before you will know that it passes.