How to swap two string variables in Java without using a third variable

Question

How do I swap two string variables in Java without using a third variable, i.e. the temp variable?

String a = \"one\"
String b = \"two\"
String temp = null;
temp         


        

Answer 1

Jj Tuibeo's solution works if you add replaceFirst() and use a regular expression:

a += b;
b = a.replaceFirst(b + "$", "");
a = a.replaceFirst("^" + b, "");

Answer 2

For String Method 1:

public class SwapWithoutThirdVar{  
public static void main (String args[]){    
 String s1 ="one";
 String s2 ="two";
 s1= s1+s2;
 s2 = s1.substring(0,(s1.length()-s2.length()));
 s1 = s1.substring(s2.length()); 
 System.out.println("s1 == "+ s1);
 System.out.println("s2 == "+ s2);

}
}

Method 2:

public class SwapWithoutThirdVar
{
public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
 {
 String s1 = "one";            
 String s2 ="two";          
 s1=s2+s1;
 s2=s1.replace(s2,"");
 s1=s1.replace(s2,"");         
 System.out.println("S1 : "+s1); 
 System.out.println("S2 : "+s2);
  }
}

For Integers

public class SwapWithoutThirdVar {

public static void main(String a[]){
    int x = 10;
    int y = 20;       
    x = x+y;
    y=x-y;
    x=x-y;
    System.out.println("After swap:");
    System.out.println("x value: "+x);
    System.out.println("y value: "+y);
}
}

Answer 3

String str1 = "first";
String str2 = "second";

str1 = str2+str1;
str2 = str1.substring(str2.length(),str1.length());
str1 = str1.substring(0,(str1.length() - str2.length()));

System.out.println(str1);
System.out.println(str2);

Answer 4

String name = "george";
String name2 = "mark";
System.out.println(name+" "+name2);
System.out.println(name.substring(name.length()) + name2 +  " "+ name );

Here substring(); method returns empty string. hence , names can be appended.

Answer 5

The simplest way is given below:

String a = "one";
String b = "two";
System.out.println("Before swap: " a + " " + b);
int len = a.length();
a = a + b;
b = a.substring(0, len);
a = a.substring(len);
System.out.println("After swap: " a + " " + b);

Answer 6

Here you go. Try this:

String a = "one";
String b = "two";
//String temp=null;
int i = a.length();
a += b;
b = a.substring(0, i);
a = a.substring(i, a.length());
System.out.println(a + " " + b);

Take any value in as string in a variable. It will be swap.