Arsalan’s Musings

Problem 1 Description: Reverse a string such that “a cat has paws” becomes “paws has cat a”.

Problem 2 Description: Remove a set of characters from a given string.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace StringManipulationProblems
{
    class Program
    {
        const string DEFAULT_COMMAND = "ReverseString";
        const string DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1 = "messages that have been in Spam more than 30 days will be automatically deleted";
        const string DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_2 = "aioeu";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string commandName;
            string commandArg1;
            string commandArg2;
            if (args.Length < 1)
            {
                commandName = DEFAULT_COMMAND;
                commandArg1 = DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1;
                commandArg2 = DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_2;
            }
            else if (args.Length == 1)
            {
                commandName = args[0];
                commandArg1 = DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1;
                commandArg2 = "aioeu";
            }
            else if (args.Length == 2)
            {
                commandName = args[0];
                commandArg1 = args[1];
                commandArg2 = "aioeu";
            }
            else
            {
                commandName = args[0];
                commandArg1 = args[1];
                commandArg2 = args[2];
            }

            string result = String.Empty;
            StringPuzzles puzzles = new StringPuzzles();

            switch (commandName)
            {
                case "ReverseString":
                    if (commandArg1.Equals(DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1))
                    {
                        Console.Out.Write("No string argument provided. Using default string: ");
                        Console.WriteLine(DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1);

                    }
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("About to call method " + commandName);
                    result = puzzles.ReverseString(commandArg1);
                    break;

                case "RemoveChars":
                    if (commandArg1.Equals(DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1))
                    {
                        Console.Out.Write("No string argument provided. Using default string: ");
                        Console.WriteLine(DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_1);

                    }
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("About to call method " + commandName);
                    result = puzzles.RemoveChars(commandArg1, commandArg2);
                    break;

                default:
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("Incorrect command! Please try again.");
                    break;
            }

            Console.Out.WriteLine("The original string was:");
            Console.Out.WriteLine(commandArg1);
            Console.Out.WriteLine("The modified string is:");
            Console.Out.WriteLine(result);
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Please press ENTER to continue...");
            Console.In.ReadLine();
        }
    }

    class StringPuzzles
    {

        public string ReverseString(string inputString)
        {
            List<string> wordList;
            StringBuilder reversedString = new StringBuilder();

            wordList =  new List<string>(inputString.Split(' '));
            for (int i = wordList.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                reversedString.Append(wordList[i] + " ");
            }

            return reversedString.ToString();
        }

        public string RemoveChars(string str, string remove)
        {
            List<char> toDelete = new List</char><char>();
            StringBuilder deletedStr = new StringBuilder();

            // Create a list of characters to delete from string
            toDelete.AddRange(remove.ToCharArray());

            // Create string with specified characters removed
            foreach (char c in str.ToCharArray())
            {
                if (!(toDelete.Contains(c)))
                {
                    deletedStr.Append(c);
                }
            }

            return deletedStr.ToString();
        }
    }
}