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moveToEnd

Language/Type: Java recursion recursive programming
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2012/02/15)

Write a recursive method moveToEnd that accepts a String s and a char c as parameters, and returns a new String similar to s but with all occurrences of c moved to the end of the string. The relative order of the other characters should be unchanged from their order in the original string s. If s does not contain c, it should be returned unmodified.

The following table shows calls to your method and their return values.

Call Value Returned
moveToEnd("hello", 'l') "heoll"
moveToEnd("hello", 'e') "hlloe"
moveToEnd("hello there", 'e') "hllo threee"
moveToEnd("hello there", 'q') "hello there"
moveToEnd("HELLO there", 'e') "HELLO three"
moveToEnd("", 'x') ""

Obey the following restrictions in your solution:

  • You may not construct any structured objects other than Strings (no array, List, Scanner, etc.).
  • You may not call any string methods that perform bulk operations on the string object, such as split, indexOf, or replace. You may call methods that examine individual characters or divide a string into a smaller substring.
  • Your method must be recursive and not use any loops (for, while, etc.).
  • Your solution should run in no worse than O(N) time, where N is the number of characters in the string.
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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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