Question

I’m trying to create a palindrome tester program for my AP Java class and I need to remove the white spaces in my code completely but it’s not letting me do so.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Palin{

  public static boolean isPalindrome(String stringToTest) {
    String workingCopy = removeJunk(stringToTest);
    String reversedCopy = reverse(workingCopy);

    return reversedCopy.equalsIgnoreCase(workingCopy);
  }

  public static String removeJunk(String string) {
    int i, len = string.length();
    StringBuffer dest = new StringBuffer(len);
    char c;


    for (i = (len - 1); i >= 0; i-=1) {
      c = string.charAt(i);
      if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(c)) 
      {
        dest.append(c);
      }


    }

    return dest.toString();
  }

  public static String reverse(String string) {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(string);

    return sb.reverse().toString();
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.print("Enter Palindrome: ");
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    String string = sc.next();

    String str = string;
    String space = "";
    String result = str.replaceAll("\\W", space);
    System.out.println(result);

    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Testing palindrome:");
    System.out.println("    " + string);
    System.out.println();

    if (isPalindrome(result)) {
      System.out.println("It's a palindrome!");
    } else {
      System.out.println("Not a palindrome!");
    }
    System.out.println();
  }
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Seems like your code is fine except for the following. You are using

String string = sc.next();

which will not read the whole line of input, hence you will lose part of the text. I think you should use the following instead of that line.

String string = sc.nextLine();