>>>( I posted this in the .NET forum also, just fishing for Fox/C# crossover folks here)
>>>
>>>I have a simple programming assignment I'm trying to help my daughter with, but I'm a helpless FoxPro addict and I'm not sure how to do this in C.
>>>
>>>She needs to write a loop to parse a string backwards, so 'Hello World' becomes 'dlroW olleH' and so on. Very simple, I could do it in Fox, but I don't know much about C.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>
>>Here one solution I found at: http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/19500?type=kbArticle&trk=MSCP
>>

>>' Reverse the input string, without using the StrRever function in the VB6
>>' compatibility assembly
>>Function ReverseString(String source) As String
>>    Dim chars() As Char = source.ToCharArray()
>>    Array.Reverse(chars)
>>    Return New String(chars)
>>End Function
>>

>>Unfortunately it is VB.NET not C#. Main goal here is to convert whole string to array and then Reverse the array and return converted array back to string :-) I hope NET gurus will give you more beautiful solution.
>
>Nice Boris:)
>Irv,
>Translation to C#:
>

>using System;
>
>class sample
>{
>  static void Main()
>  {
>    Console.WriteLine("Write text to reverse and press [enter]");
>    string inputStr = Console.ReadLine();
>    Console.WriteLine( ReverseString( inputStr ) );
>  }
>
>  public static string ReverseString(string source)
>  {
>    char[] aStr = source.ToCharArray();
>    Array.Reverse(aStr);
>    return new String( aStr );
>  }
>}
>

If you have .net 2.0 SDK, go to command prompt, write this with notepad to a .cs file, compile using "csc.exe".
>Cetin

Cetin,

Thanks. I really need to learn more C#, haven't dabbled in C since late-Eighties. Would you know how to write this in straight C? I'm not certain if her class actually uses C# or just C.

Thanks,

Irv.