I would like to swap a string from "abcde" to "bcdea". So I wrote my code as below in Kotlin
var prevResult = "abcde"
var tmp = prevResult[0]
for (i in 0..prevResult.length - 2) {
prevResult[i] = prevResult[i+1] // Error on preveResult[i]
}
prevResult[prevResult.length-1] = tmp // Error on preveResult[prevResult.lengt-1]
It errors out as stated above comment line. What did I do wrong? How could I fix this and get what I want?
Strings in Kotlin just like in Java are immutable, so there is no string.set(index, value) (which is what string[index] = value is equivalent to).
To build a string from pieces you could use a StringBuilder, construct a CharSequence and use joinToString, operate on a plain array (char[]) or do result = result + nextCharacter (creates a new String each time -- this is the most expensive way).
Here's how you could do this with StringBuilder:
var prevResult = "abcde"
var tmp = prevResult[0]
var builder = StringBuilder()
for (i in 0..prevResult.length - 2) {
builder.append(prevResult[i+1])
}
builder.append(tmp) // Don't really need tmp, use prevResult[0] instead.
var result = builder.toString()
However, a much simpler way to achieve your goal ("bcdea" from "abcde") is to just "move" one character:
var result = prevResult.substring(1) + prevResult[0]
or using the Sequence methods:
var result = prevResult.drop(1) + prevResult.take(1)
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