Alternative for a loop in C++ - c++

Question

I want to reverse a string without the use of a loop. My code with the loop looks like:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
string reverseString(string str) {
string changedString;
int strLength = int(str.length() - 1);
for(int i {strLength}; i >= 0; i--) {
changedString.push_back(str.at(i));
}
return changedString;
}
int main() {
string str;
cout << "Enter a string to reverse it:\n" << flush;
cin >> str;
cout << reverseString(str) << flush;
}
Now I need to write a function without the loop. Only the methods of String should be used. Can you help me solving this problem?

Answer 1

It is very simple to write such a function
std::string reverse( const std::string &s )
{
return { s.rbegin(), s.rend() };
}
Here is a demonstrative program
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
std::string reverse( const std::string &s )
{
return { s.rbegin(), s.rend() };
}
int main()
{
std::string s( "Hello World" );
std::cout << s << '\n';
std::cout << reverse( s ) << '\n';
return 0;
}
Its output is
Hello World
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Answer 2

Well, you can do that using recursion. Here are some links if you aren't aware what recursion is : link1 and link2.
Technically it won't be a loop.
string reverseString(string str, int index, string ans) {
if (index == -1) return ans;
ans += str[index];
return reverseString(str, index - 1, ans);
}
Parameters for this function will be str as it was by default, index = size(str) - 1 and ans ans = "";
reverseString(str, size(str) - 1, "") for example.
If you want your function to take exactly one argument, then you can write wrapper function and the one I wrote will have different name - reverseStringWrapper for example and in reverseString there will be only one line - return reverseStringWrapper(str, size(str) - 1, "");
string reverseStringWrapper(string str, int index, string ans) {
if (index == -1) return ans;
ans += str[index];
return reverseString(str, index - 1, ans);
}
string reverseString(string str) {
return reverseStringWrapper(str, size(str) - 1, "");
}

Answer 3

How was this?
In c, You can use strrev() function to reverse the string(char*)
In c++, you can either use std::reverse() or StringBuilder.reverse()
method to reverse a string.
.
This way you can reverse the char array(char*).
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
// Function to reverse a given character array using std::reverse
void reverse(char *str)
{
std::reverse(str, str + strlen(str));
}
// main function
int main()
{
/* using C string */
char s[] = "Hello World";
reverse(s);
cout << "Reverse of the given string is : " << s;
return 0;
}
This way you can reverse the string.
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
// Function to reverse a given character array using std::reverse
void reverse(char* str)
{
std::reverse(str, str + strlen(str));
}
// main function
int main()
{
/* using C string */
// char s[] = "Techie Delight";
string s = "hello world";
int n = s.length();
// declaring character array
char char_array[n + 1];
// copying the contents of the
// string to char array
strcpy(char_array, s.c_str());
reverse(char_array);
s = char_array;
cout << "Reverse of the given string is : " << s;
return 0;
}
Hope this might Helps:)