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Palindrome example

 
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Dear friends,

I wrote the following code for checking a Palindrome (i.e. a string remains the same when reversed). However, it runs correctly only for one iteration of the loop, in the next iteration it takes the old value of the String from the console and does not wait for reading the new value. I cant understand why ? Kindly explain. The code is :


[ August 16, 2008: Message edited by: Anand Shrivastava ]
[ August 16, 2008: Message edited by: Anand Shrivastava ]
 
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One thing that looks wrong is the setWord method. It should call word.setLength(0) before appending the new value.
 
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Yes,i amended it. But even after that it does not wait for new input second time onwards.
 
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My guess would be that the readLine reads the newline character that you need to type after the "y"/"n".

You may want to change the System.in.read call into a readLine as well, and then extract the first character from it.
 
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Yes Ulf, you are right. You guys are genius. I dont know from where you learnt so much. Anyway, amending as per your advise.
 
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