Java tutorial
import java.text.CharacterIterator; import java.text.StringCharacterIterator; /* * SSHTools - Java SSH2 API * * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Lee David Painter and Contributors. * * Contributions made by: * * Brett Smith * Richard Pernavas * Erwin Bolwidt * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ //package com.sshtools.daemon.util; /** * The sole instance of this class provides several convienience methods for * string manipulation such as substring replacement or character repetition. * * @author Manfred Duchrow * @version 2.0 */ public class Util { /** * Returns a string that contains all characters of the given string in * reverse order. * * @param str * * @return */ public String reverse(String str) { if (str == null) { return null; } char[] newStr = new char[str.length()]; StringCharacterIterator iterator = new StringCharacterIterator(str); int i = 0; for (char ch = iterator.last(); ch != CharacterIterator.DONE; ch = iterator.previous()) { newStr[i] = ch; i++; } return new String(newStr); } }