Return to Snippet

Revision: 61183
at December 2, 2012 12:43 by rtperson


Initial Code
bool checkPalindrome(char *number) {
    char *begin, *end;
    int x;
    x = strlen(number) - 1;
    
    begin = &number[0];
    end = &number[x];
    
    for ( ; x >= 0; --x) {
        if ( *begin++ != *end--) return false;
    }
    
    return true;
}

Initial URL

                                

Initial Description
A palindrome is a string that reads the same both backwards and forwards. Famous examples are "Madam I'm Adam" or "Able was I ere I saw Elba". This function checks that a given string reads the same backwards and forwards. (requires including stdbool.h)

Initial Title
Palindrome Check In C

Initial Tags

                                

Initial Language
C