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
    {
        // Main method - entry point of the program
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Initialize a string variable with some text content
            string text = "amamd";

            // Display the original string
            Console.WriteLine("Original string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

            // Update the string variable with a different text content
            text = "pamamd";

            // Display the updated string
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the updated string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

            // Update the string variable with another text content
            text = "ferre";

            // Display the updated string
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the updated string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
        }

        // Method to check if a string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome
        public static bool test(string text)
        {
            // Concatenate the characters in the string after ordering them
            string orderedText = string.Concat(text.OrderBy(x => x));

            // Replace the consecutive same characters with an empty string using Regex
            // If the length of modified string is less than or equal to 1, it can be a palindrome
            bool result = Regex.Replace(orderedText, @"([a-z])\1{1}", string.Empty).Length <= 1;

            // Return the result indicating whether the string can be transformed into a palindrome
            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
    {
        // Main method - entry point of the program
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Initialize a string variable with some text content
            string text = "amamd";

            // Display the original string
            Console.WriteLine("Original string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

            // Update the string variable with a different text content
            text = "pamamd";

            // Display the updated string
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the updated string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));

            // Update the string variable with another text content
            text = "ferre";

            // Display the updated string
            Console.WriteLine("\nOriginal string: " + text);

            // Check if the characters in the updated string can be transformed into a palindrome
            Console.WriteLine("Check the said string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome? " + test(text));
        }

        // Method to check if a string of characters can be transformed into a palindrome
        public static bool test(string text)
        {
            // Concatenate the characters in the string after ordering them
            text = string.Concat(text.OrderBy(c => c));

            // Use Regex to replace consecutive identical characters with an empty string
            // If the length of the modified string is less than or equal to 1, it can be a palindrome
            bool result = Regex.Replace(text, @"(.)\1", "").Length <= 1;

            // Return the result indicating whether the string can be transformed into a palindrome
            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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