Hello, and welcome! Are you ready to take your string manipulation skills in C# to the next level? Today, we'll explore a task that not only enhances your understanding of strings but also trains your ability to think creatively. The task at hand involves splitting a string into words, then reversing each word as if reflected in a mirror. Intrigued? Let's dive right in!
Consider a string filled with words. Your task is to write a C# function that accepts such a string. It then takes each of those words, reverses their character order, and finally stitches them all together to form a new string with reversed words.
Here's what you need to keep in mind:
- The input string will contain between 1 and 100 words.
- Each word is a sequence of characters separated by white space.
- A word is composed of characters ranging from
a
toz
,A
toZ
,0
to9
, or even an underscore_
. - The given string will not start or end with a space — double spaces will not appear either.
- After reversing the words, your program should return a single string with the words preserving their original order.
Example
Suppose that the input string is "Hello neat CSharp_123"
.
The function will work on this in the following fashion:
Hello
becomesolleH
neat
becomestaen
CSharp_123
becomes321_prahSC
The function now combines the obtained strings into one string, resulting in "olleH taen 321_prahSC"
.
Therefore, if Solution("Hello neat CSharp_123")
is called, the returned value should be "olleH taen 321_prahSC"
.
Let's start breaking this down!
Our very first step requires us to separate the words in the sentence. C# provides us with a built-in Split
method, which breaks a given string at a specified separator and outputs an array of words. If no argument is provided to the Split
method, it defaults to using space as the separator. Here is a sample code to illustrate this:
You will see the following printed out:
We've successfully extracted the words from the sentence, but they're not reversed yet. C# provides the Array.Reverse
method, which we can use in conjunction with LINQ's Select
and ToArray
methods. Let's add these lines to our existing code:
Aha! Now you can see the reversed words:
Finally, we need to bring these reversed words back together again into a string format, using space as a separator. We get to use String.Join
for this. Here's the code to complete our task:
Well done! By completing this lesson, you've gained proficiency in manipulating strings in C#, especially when it comes to reversing the order of characters in a word. I hope you're feeling more confident and enthusiastic about your C# skills. Remember, the key to mastery is regular practice. Therefore, take a moment to explore related problems and practice what you’ve learned. It's all part of the joy of learning!
