Palindrome Checking

[Aurax]

Hi all

I am trying to write a program to recognizing word or phrase is a palindrome or not.
Please help me

Regards
Aura

[Jx_Man]

Use StrReverse() function to reserve the word/phrase. Compare the real words/phrase with reserved words/phrase.
Check out the result if it same or not.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim Palindrome As String

    Palindrome = StrReverse(Text1.Text)

    If StrComp(Text1.Text, Palindrome, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
        MsgBox "Palindrome!"
    Else
        MsgBox "Not a Palindrome!"
    End If
End Sub

[Reverend Jim]

But before you reverse the string you should normalize it.

1. convert everything to upper or lower case
2. remove all non-letters

If you were to check the phrase "Able was I ere I saw Elba" without normalizing it would not be flagged as a palindrome. After normalizing it would be "ablewasiereisawelba" which would be flagged as a palindrome.

[Jx_Man]

If you were to check the phrase "Able was I ere I saw Elba" without normalizing it would not be flagged as a palindrome. After normalizing it would be "ablewasiereisawelba" which would be flagged as a palindrome.

Nope. It also recognized as palindrome. StrReverse will completed reverse the words included the space.

[scudzilla]

Sir Jim's example would be flagged as palindrome because the spaces are symmetrical.

How about this one? "A nut for a jar of tuna". Without normalizing, it will not be flagged as one.

[Jx_Man]

A nut for a jar of tuna

That makes sense.
@reverend jim and scidzilla : Thanks for correcting
@Aura : this following codes is modified with other members suggestion :

Function RemoveNonLetterChar(theString)
    strAlphaNumeric = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
    For i = 1 To Len(theString)
        strChar = Mid(theString, i, 1)
        If InStr(strAlphaNumeric, strChar) Then
            CleanedString = CleanedString & strChar
        End If
    Next
    RemoveNonLetterChar = CleanedString
End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim Temp, Palindrome As String

    Temp = LCase(RemoveNonLetterChar(Text1.Text)) 'lower case and remove non letters char
    Palindrome = StrReverse(Temp)

    If StrComp(Temp, Palindrome, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
        MsgBox "Palindrome!"
    Else
        MsgBox "Not a Palindrome!"
    End If
End Sub

[Aurax]

This is perfect.
Thank you all.

[Reverend Jim]

Sir Jim's example would be flagged as palindrome because the spaces are symmetrical.

Only if you did the compare case-insensitive. But I suppose I could have picked a better example. Madam, I'm Adam would have been better. Or A man, a plan, a canal. Panama.