How To Reverse String In Java in Different Ways

By Saruque Ahamed Mollick

In this post, we are going to learn how to take String input from the user and then we will make the string reverse in different ways in Java. You can choose any of these programs which is best to understand for you.

• We can use charAt method to extract each character and then we can apply our own logic to reverse the string
• We can also use StringBuffer class. Because this class has a method to reverse an object of StringBuffer class.
• StringBuilder class can be used as there is a reverse method to invert our string.
• Storing the string into a char array, we can reverse the string by using index value in a for loop.

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import java.util.Scanner;
public class Codespeedy {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
         System.out.println("Enter a String: ");
        String string = input.nextLine();
        String reversed = reverse(string);
        System.out.println("The inverted string is: " + reversed);
    }

    public static String reverse(String string)
    {
        if (string.isEmpty())
            return string;
       //Recursive Method
        return reverse(string.substring(1)) + string.charAt(0);
    }
}

Output:

run:
Enter a String: 
Hello CodeSpeedy
The inverted string is: ydeepSedoC olleH
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 7 seconds)

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1. Input is taken from the user. (String input)
2. reverse method is called, passing the parameter string entered by the user.
3. If String is empty just return the empty string
4. If String is not empty then return the method recursively, that means in reverse method it will call the method “reverse” itself and it will print the Reversed String finally

return reverse(string.substring(1)) + string.charAt(0);

This is the main algorithm which reverses the string

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import java.util.Scanner;

public class CodeSpeedy {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
         System.out.println("Enter a String: ");
        String string = input.nextLine();
        StringBuilder userinput = new StringBuilder(); //Creating object
 
        
        userinput.append(string); //appending string into userinput
 
       
        userinput = userinput.reverse(); //reversing string
 
        for (int i=0; i<userinput.length(); i++)
            System.out.print(userinput.charAt(i)); //printing final output
    }
}

Output

run:
Enter a String: 
Hello CodeSpeedy
ydeepSedoC olleH

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the algorithm of this method:

• Take input from the user.
• create a char array and store the string in that char array.
• Run a for loop and print the characters one by one in each iteration ( Using index value the characters will be printed from the last character to the first character)

Java Code

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Codespeedy {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
         System.out.println("Enter a String: ");
        String string = input.nextLine();
        char[] result = string.toCharArray();
        System.out.println("Reversed String Is:");
        for (int i = result.length-1; i>=0; i--)
            System.out.print(result[i]);
    }
}

Output:

run:
Enter a String: 
Hello CodeSpeedy
Reversed String Is:
ydeepSedoC olleH

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