Is there any kind of method to "display a word or phrase backwards"?

[TommyTran]

Hi everyboy! I ran into this assignment that asks me to "create an application that allows the user to enter a word or phrse, then the Label should display that word or phrase backwards in all lowercase.

For example, I enter "I read"
Then the label should display "daer I"

I try to do this with "Substring, Replace, etc", butnone of them work.

Is there any particular method to achieve this assignment?

[Ranx]

you can deconstruct the old string starting from the back and create a new string.

just roughly, untested.

e.g.

for x = 0 to oldstring .length -1
     Newstring &= oldstring.substring(x,1)
next

or something along those lines

[apegram]

Sub Main()

        Dim original As String = "Reverse Me"
        Dim temp As Char() = original.ToCharArray()
        Array.Reverse(temp)
        Dim reversed As String = New String(temp)
        Console.WriteLine(reversed)
        Console.Read()

    End Sub

[Ken VB]

That is cool. I made a hangman program for my daughter, and I used a loop to pull out each character into an array. ToCharArray would have been much better!

[sknake]

>> Ranx

Concatenating a string in a loop like that kills performance on an application. You should use a StringBuilder or take the approach apegram did. Every time you append a character it reallocates a new piece of memory for stringsize+1. Now for small strings you can't really tell, but when they get bigger it can wreak havoc on your application.

[vbnetskywalker]

you can ue this

Dim R = Label1.Text.ToCharArray.Reverse
Label1.Text = String.Join("", R.Cast(Of String).ToArray)

but I'm sure your teacher wants you to do it the hard way (using loops)
to give you better understanding

[Ranx]

Hey sknake

thanks mate, am aware of the shortcomings of strings, though was unaware of the flexibility the ToCharArray method (Will be looking into that more :-). was just trying to point the original poster in some sort of direction while i downed my morning coffee.

:-)