Comment Added by : Kristoffer L

Comment Added at : 2012-11-21 01:51:36

Comment on Tutorial : Palindrome String in Java By Grant Braught
Why use recursion in Java, even for Strings? The stack will grow and use more time and space. If we used Scheme, ML or a language with iterative recursion (tail recursion) it might be our only choice, but not in Java. Why not just use a loop?

Something like:
boolean isPalindrome(String str){
int i = 0;
int j = str.length() - 1;
while(i < j){
if(str.charAt(i) != str.charAt(j))
return false;
i++;
j--;
}
return true;
}

And maybe add a couple of tests ala:
if(!Character.isLetter(str.charAt(i)))
i++
if(!Character.isLetter(str.charAt(j)))
j--
or just
str.replaceAll("[^\w]", "");

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