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I can find no String.Reverse() in .net that actually returns a string. (Any reason why there is none?) What would the most efficient code (least temp objects created etc) for reversing a string in .net be?

Tim Lovell-Smith
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  • In retrospect, I think I see the answer: the reason there is none, is that it is ambiguous what string.Reverse should do, and therefore a source of surprises and bugs: should it return you all the UTF-16 codepoints of your string in reverse order? Or the UTF-32 codepoints? What about combining marks and ordering? Should it return you unicode text which should visually look like the original string but reversed? Which canonical representation of that? – Tim Lovell-Smith Nov 20 '18 at 21:32

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With .NET 4.5 (maybe earlier, I dunno), the framework ships with an extension method to the String class named Reverse.

Reverse() returns an IEnumerable<Char>, which is directly assignable to a String.

So this should work: 

string one = "kayak";
string two = (string)(one.Reverse());
Sam Axe
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  • The built in string Reverse was added for .net 3.5. At the Same time MS snuck in REVERSE string into SQL server for SQL Server 2008 and later. – Sql Surfer Sep 14 '16 at 03:02
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Try this:

public static string ReverseString(string s)
{
    char[] arr = s.ToCharArray();
    Array.Reverse(arr);
    return new string(arr);
}
Facundo La Rocca
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