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Example Application: Finding a Palindrome

     

Introduction

A palindrome is a word or a sentence that reads the same way from left to right or from right to left.

This is an example code of finding out whether a word or sentence is a palindrome. This code uses iteration:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Palindrome1
{
    public class Program
    {
        // This method uses an iterative to analyze a string
        // and find out whether it is a palindrome
        private static bool Iterative(string strSubmitted)
        {
            int fromLeft;
            bool result = false;
            int fromRight = strSubmitted.Length - 1;

            if (strSubmitted.Length == 1)
                result = true;
            else
            {
                for (fromLeft = 0;
                    fromLeft < strSubmitted.Length;
                    fromLeft++, fromRight--)
                {
                    if (strSubmitted[fromLeft] == strSubmitted[fromRight])
                        result = true;
                    else
                        result = false;
                }
            }

            return result;
        }

        static int Main(string[] args)
        {
            // This variable will be used to hold the result of a method
            bool isPalindrome = false;
            // This is the value the user will enter
            string Sentence = "";
                  
            // Request a string from the user
            Console.Write("Enter a word or a sentence: ");
            Sentence = Console.ReadLine();
        
            isPalindrome = Iterative(Sentence.ToLower());
        
            // Find out whether the user-entered string was a palindrome
            // Display the result accordingly
            if (isPalindrome == true)
                Console.WriteLine(Sentence + " is a palindrome.\n");
            else
                Console.WriteLine(Sentence + " is not a palindrome.\n");
            
            return 0;
        }
    }
}
 
 

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