C#: Possible Palindromes from string of characters

C# Sharp Regular Expression: Exercise-3 with Solution

From Wikipedia
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar.

Write a C# Sharp program to check whether a given string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome. Return true otherwise false.

Sample Data:
("amamd") -> True
("pamamd") -> False
("ferre") -> True

Sample Solution-1:

C# Sharp Code:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Linq;
namespace exercises
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            string text = "amamd";
            Console.WriteLine("Original string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
            text = "pamamd";
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
            text = "ferre";
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

        }

        public static bool test(string text)
        {
            bool result = Regex.Replace(string.Concat(text.OrderBy(x => x)),@"([a-z])\1{1}",string.Empty).Length <= 1;
            return result;
        }
    }
}

Sample Output:

Original string: amamd
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? True

Original string: pamamd
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? False

Original string: ferre
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? True

Flowchart:

Sample Solution-2:

C# Sharp Code:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Linq;
namespace exercises
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            string text = "amamd";
            Console.WriteLine("Original string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
            text = "pamamd";
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
            text = "ferre";
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

        }

        public static bool test(string text)
        {
            text = string.Concat(text.OrderBy(c => c));
            bool result =  Regex.Replace(text, @"(.)\1", "").Length <= 1;
            return result;
        }
    }
}

Sample Output:

Original string: amamd
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? True

Original string: pamamd
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? False

Original string: ferre
Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? True

Flowchart:

C# Sharp Code Editor:

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