//  Stringing.java (c) 2004 Kari Laitinen

//  http://www.naturalprogramming.com

//  2002-11-27  File created.
//  2004-10-09  Last modification.

//  This program demonstrates (among other things):
//    - how a String object can be created from an array of type char
//    - how s String object can be converted to an array of type char
//    - how an array of type char can be printed by using the
//      new kind of Java for loop

class Stringing
{
   public static void main( String[] not_in_use )
   {
      String  abcdefgh_string  =  "abcdefgh" ;

      char[]  xxxxxxxx_array  =  { 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x' } ;

      String  xxxxxxxx_string  =  new  String( xxxxxxxx_array ) ;

      String  defgzzzz_string  =  abcdefgh_string.substring( 3, 7 ) ;

      defgzzzz_string  =  defgzzzz_string  +  "zzzz" ;

      String  text_to_print  =  "  "  +  abcdefgh_string  +
                                "  "  +  xxxxxxxx_string  +
                                "  "  +  defgzzzz_string  +  "  " ;
      System.out.print( "\n" ) ;

      int  character_index  =  0 ;

      while ( character_index  <  text_to_print.length() )
      {
         System.out.print( text_to_print.charAt( character_index ) ) ;
         character_index  ++ ;
      }

      System.out.print( "\n\n" ) ;

      char[] characters_to_print  =  text_to_print.toCharArray() ;

      for ( char character_in_text : characters_to_print )
      {
         System.out.print( " "  +  character_in_text ) ;
      }


      System.out.print( "\n" ) ;

      character_index  =  text_to_print.length() ;

      while ( character_index  >  0 )
      {
         character_index  --  ;
         System.out.print( " "  +  text_to_print.charAt( character_index ) ) ;
      }
   }
}


/****  Multiline comment:

      The following code was once used to print the
      characters of string text_to_print:
    


      StringCharacterIterator  character_in_text ;

      character_in_text  =  new StringCharacterIterator( text_to_print ) ;

      while ( character_in_text.getIndex()
                                < character_in_text.getEndIndex() - 1 )
      {
         System.out.print( " "  +  character_in_text.next() ) ;
      }



*****/