java: use StringBuilder to insert at the beginning

Question

I could only do this with String, for example:

String str=\"\";
for(int i=0;i<100;i++){
    str=i+str;
}

Is there a way to achieve this wit

Answer 1

As an alternative solution you can use a LIFO structure (like a stack) to store all the strings and when you are done just take them all out and put them into the StringBuilder. It naturally reverses the order of the items (strings) placed in it.

Stack textStack = new Stack();
// push the strings to the stack
while(!isReadingTextDone()) {
    String text = readText();
    textStack.push(text);
}
// pop the strings and add to the text builder
String builder = new StringBuilder(); 
while (!textStack.empty()) {
      builder.append(textStack.pop());
}
// get the final string
String finalText =  builder.toString();