This week’s programming challenge is about Strings!  String is a great C# class with a lot of built-in functionality for manipulating characters and text.

Write a program that reads a string from standard console input and then prints it in reverse order on the screen.

To spice this up, allow the program to take in a number of strings and reverse the whole thing before printing it.  The console should know that the program is done when it encounters the word END.

Example input:

one

two

three

END

Example output:

three

two

one

See if you can write this program before I post the solution on Friday.

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class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //create a List that allows you to hold the input strings
            List<String> wordList = new List<string>();

            //get the word input from the user until they tell us there are no more words
            string input = "";

            while(true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Please enter the word you wish to store or END to quit");

                //get the string from the user
                input = Console.ReadLine();

                //test the input to make sure its not the word END
                if(input == "END")
                {
                    break;
                }
                else
                {
                    //store the input in the list
                    wordList.Add(input);
                }

            }

            //once the user has entered all of the words they want, we will reverse the list and print it
            wordList.Reverse();

            foreach(string word in wordList)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(word);
            }

        }
    }

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