Question

Hello
Why my reverse method that uses recursion isn’t working?
The print statement shows that the operation is done correctly but at the end it seems like only the very ast char of the entire String is assigned to h.

    public static String reverse(String s,String h){

    if(s.length()==0){

        return s;

    } else {


        h+=s.charAt(s.length()-1);
        System.out.println(h);//FOR TEST
        s=s.substring(0,s.length()-1);
        reverse(s,h);
        return h;
    }

}

Any advice?

Answer 1

Use

 return reverse(s,h); 

instead of
return h;

i.e:

public static String reverse(String s,String h){

    if(s.length() == 0){

        return h;

    } else {


        h+=s.charAt(s.length()-1);
        System.out.println(h);//FOR TEST
        s=s.substring(0,s.length()-1);
        return reverse(s,h); //NOTICE THE CHANGE HERE,
    }

}