Anonymous Kotlin function: Check palindrome string
Write an anonymous Kotlin function to check if a string is a palindrome.
Sample Solution:
Kotlin Code:
fun main() {
val isPalindrome: (String) -> Boolean = { str ->
val cleanStr = str.lowercase().replace(Regex("[^a-zA-Z0-9]"), "")
cleanStr == cleanStr.reversed()
}
val str1 = "Madam"
val str2 = "Kotlin"
println("$str1 is a palindrome: ${isPalindrome(str1)}")
println("$str2 is a palindrome: ${isPalindrome(str2)}")
}
Sample Output:
Madam is a palindrome: true Kotlin is a palindrome: false
Explanation:
In the above exercise -
Inside "main()" function we define an anonymous function isPalindrome with the type (String) -> Boolean. This function takes a single string argument and returns a Boolean indicating whether the string is a palindrome or not.
The isPalindrome function implements the following steps:
- It converts the input string to lowercase using toLowerCase() to ignore case sensitivity.
- It removes any non-alphanumeric characters from the string using replace(Regex("[^a-zA-Z0-9]"), "").
- It checks if the cleaned string is equal to its reversed version using the == operator.
- The result of the equality comparison is returned as a Boolean value.
Kotlin Editor:
Previous: Convert list of strings to uppercase with lambda.
Next: Calculate a factorial.
What is the difficulty level of this exercise?
Test your Programming skills with w3resource's quiz.
- Weekly Trends and Language Statistics
- Weekly Trends and Language Statistics