我刚刚在c# 2.0中写了一个字符串反向函数(即LINQ不可用),然后想到了这个:

public string Reverse(string text)
{
    char[] cArray = text.ToCharArray();
    string reverse = String.Empty;
    for (int i = cArray.Length - 1; i > -1; i--)
    {
        reverse += cArray[i];
    }
    return reverse;
}

就我个人而言,我并不喜欢这个功能,我相信有更好的方法来实现它。是吗?


当前回答

如果在面试中你被告知不能使用Array。反过来,我想这可能是最快的一个。它不会创建新的字符串,只迭代数组的一半以上(即O(n/2)次迭代)

    public static string ReverseString(string stringToReverse)
    {
        char[] charArray = stringToReverse.ToCharArray();
        int len = charArray.Length-1;
        int mid = len / 2;

        for (int i = 0; i < mid; i++)
        {
            char tmp = charArray[i];
            charArray[i] = charArray[len - i];
            charArray[len - i] = tmp;
        }
        return new string(charArray);
    }

其他回答

首先,你必须理解的是str+=将调整字符串内存大小,为1个额外的字符腾出空间。这很好,但是如果你有一本1000页的书,你想要反转,这将需要很长时间来执行。

有些人建议的解决方案是使用StringBuilder。字符串构建器在执行+=时所做的是分配更大的内存块来保存新字符,这样它就不需要在每次添加字符时进行重新分配。

如果你真的想要一个快速和最小的解决方案,我建议如下:

            char[] chars = new char[str.Length];
            for (int i = str.Length - 1, j = 0; i >= 0; --i, ++j)
            {
                chars[j] = str[i];
            }
            str = new String(chars);

在这个解决方案中,在初始化char[]时有一个初始内存分配,在string构造函数从char数组构建字符串时有一个初始内存分配。

在我的系统上,我为您运行了一个测试,反转了一个2750,000个字符的字符串。以下是10次执行的结果:

StringBuilder: 190K - 200K tick

字符数组:130K - 160K

我还运行了一个正常String +=的测试,但我在10分钟后放弃了它,没有输出。

但是,我也注意到,对于较小的字符串,StringBuilder更快,因此您必须根据输入来决定实现。

干杯

这是一个非常棘手的问题。

我推荐使用Array。大多数情况下是反向的,因为它是原生编码的,维护和理解非常简单。

在我测试的所有情况下,它似乎都优于StringBuilder。

public string Reverse(string text)
{
   if (text == null) return null;

   // this was posted by petebob as well 
   char[] array = text.ToCharArray();
   Array.Reverse(array);
   return new String(array);
}

对于特定长度的字符串,使用Xor的第二种方法更快。

    public static string ReverseXor(string s)
    {
        if (s == null) return null;
        char[] charArray = s.ToCharArray();
        int len = s.Length - 1;

        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++, len--)
        {
            charArray[i] ^= charArray[len];
            charArray[len] ^= charArray[i];
            charArray[i] ^= charArray[len];
        }

        return new string(charArray);
    }

注意:如果你想支持完整的Unicode UTF16字符集,请阅读此。而是使用那里的实现。它可以通过使用上述算法之一进一步优化,并在反转字符后遍历字符串以清理它。

下面是StringBuilder和Array之间的性能比较。逆向和异或法。

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
    class Program
    {
        delegate string StringDelegate(string s);

        static void Benchmark(string description, StringDelegate d, int times, string text)
        {
            Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
            sw.Start();
            for (int j = 0; j < times; j++)
            {
                d(text);
            }
            sw.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("{0} Ticks {1} : called {2} times.", sw.ElapsedTicks, description, times);
        }

        public static string ReverseXor(string s)
        {
            char[] charArray = s.ToCharArray();
            int len = s.Length - 1;

            for (int i = 0; i < len; i++, len--)
            {
                charArray[i] ^= charArray[len];
                charArray[len] ^= charArray[i];
                charArray[i] ^= charArray[len];
            }

            return new string(charArray);
        }

        public static string ReverseSB(string text)
        {
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(text.Length);
            for (int i = text.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                builder.Append(text[i]);
            }
            return builder.ToString();
        }

        public static string ReverseArray(string text)
        {
            char[] array = text.ToCharArray();
            Array.Reverse(array);
            return (new string(array));
        }

        public static string StringOfLength(int length)
        {
            Random random = new Random();
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
            {
                sb.Append(Convert.ToChar(Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(26 * random.NextDouble() + 65))));
            }
            return sb.ToString();
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            int[] lengths = new int[] {1,10,15,25,50,75,100,1000,100000};

            foreach (int l in lengths)
            {
                int iterations = 10000;
                string text = StringOfLength(l);
                Benchmark(String.Format("String Builder (Length: {0})", l), ReverseSB, iterations, text);
                Benchmark(String.Format("Array.Reverse (Length: {0})", l), ReverseArray, iterations, text);
                Benchmark(String.Format("Xor (Length: {0})", l), ReverseXor, iterations, text);

                Console.WriteLine();    
            }

            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

以下是调查结果:

26251 Ticks String Builder (Length: 1) : called 10000 times.
33373 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 1) : called 10000 times.
20162 Ticks Xor (Length: 1) : called 10000 times.

51321 Ticks String Builder (Length: 10) : called 10000 times.
37105 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 10) : called 10000 times.
23974 Ticks Xor (Length: 10) : called 10000 times.

66570 Ticks String Builder (Length: 15) : called 10000 times.
26027 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 15) : called 10000 times.
24017 Ticks Xor (Length: 15) : called 10000 times.

101609 Ticks String Builder (Length: 25) : called 10000 times.
28472 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 25) : called 10000 times.
35355 Ticks Xor (Length: 25) : called 10000 times.

161601 Ticks String Builder (Length: 50) : called 10000 times.
35839 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 50) : called 10000 times.
51185 Ticks Xor (Length: 50) : called 10000 times.

230898 Ticks String Builder (Length: 75) : called 10000 times.
40628 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 75) : called 10000 times.
78906 Ticks Xor (Length: 75) : called 10000 times.

312017 Ticks String Builder (Length: 100) : called 10000 times.
52225 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 100) : called 10000 times.
110195 Ticks Xor (Length: 100) : called 10000 times.

2970691 Ticks String Builder (Length: 1000) : called 10000 times.
292094 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 1000) : called 10000 times.
846585 Ticks Xor (Length: 1000) : called 10000 times.

305564115 Ticks String Builder (Length: 100000) : called 10000 times.
74884495 Ticks Array.Reverse (Length: 100000) : called 10000 times.
125409674 Ticks Xor (Length: 100000) : called 10000 times.

对于短字符串,Xor似乎更快。

我们可以使用两个指针,一个指向字符串的开始,另一个指向字符串的结束。然后每次交换第i个和第j个指针的值,第i个指针的值递增+1,第j个指针的值递减-1。

string s = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(s + "\n");
char[] charArray = s.ToCharArray();
int i = 0, j = s.Length - 1;
while (i < j) {
    char temp = charArray[i];
    charArray[i] = charArray[j];
    charArray[j] = temp;
    i++; j--;
}
string ans = new string(charArray);
Console.WriteLine(ans + "\n");
// Input: hello
// Output: olleh

因为我喜欢两个答案-一个是使用字符串。创建,因此高性能和低分配和另一个正确性-使用StringInfo类,我决定需要一种组合方法。这是最终的字符串反转方法:)

private static string ReverseString(string str)
    {
        return string.Create(str.Length, str, (chars, state) =>
        {
            var enumerator = StringInfo.GetTextElementEnumerator(state);
            var position = state.Length;
            while (enumerator.MoveNext())
            {
                var cluster = ((string)enumerator.Current).AsSpan();
                cluster.CopyTo(chars.Slice(position - cluster.Length));
                position -= cluster.Length;
            }
        });
    }

还有一种更好的方法,使用StringInfo类的方法,它通过只返回索引来跳过Enumerator的大量字符串分配。

private static string ReverseString(string str)
    {
        return string.Create(str.Length, str, (chars, state) =>
        {
            var position = 0;
            var indexes = StringInfo.ParseCombiningCharacters(state); // skips string creation
            var stateSpan = state.AsSpan();
            for (int len = indexes.Length, i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                var index = indexes[i];
                var spanLength = i == len - 1 ? state.Length - index : indexes[i + 1] - index;
                stateSpan.Slice(index, spanLength).CopyTo(chars.Slice(position));
                position += spanLength;
            }
        });
    }

与LINQ解决方案相比的一些基准测试:

String length 20:

LINQ                       Mean: 2,355.5 ns   Allocated: 1440 B
string.Create              Mean:   851.0 ns   Allocated:  720 B
string.Create with indexes Mean:   466.4 ns   Allocated:  168 B

String length 450:

LINQ                          Mean: 34.33 us   Allocated: 22.98 KB
string.Create                 Mean:   19.13 us   Allocated: 14.98 KB
string.Create with indexes    Mean:   10.32 us   Allocated: 2.69 KB

抱歉写了这么长时间,但这可能会很有趣

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        public static string ReverseUsingArrayClass(string text)
        {
            char[] chars = text.ToCharArray();
            Array.Reverse(chars);
            return new string(chars);
        }

        public static string ReverseUsingCharacterBuffer(string text)
        {
            char[] charArray = new char[text.Length];
            int inputStrLength = text.Length - 1;
            for (int idx = 0; idx <= inputStrLength; idx++) 
            {
                charArray[idx] = text[inputStrLength - idx];                
            }
            return new string(charArray);
        }

        public static string ReverseUsingStringBuilder(string text)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
            {
                return text;
            }

            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(text.Length);
            for (int i = text.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                builder.Append(text[i]);
            }

            return builder.ToString();
        }

        private static string ReverseUsingStack(string input)
        {
            Stack<char> resultStack = new Stack<char>();
            foreach (char c in input)
            {
                resultStack.Push(c);
            }

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            while (resultStack.Count > 0)
            {
                sb.Append(resultStack.Pop());
            }
            return sb.ToString();
        }

        public static string ReverseUsingXOR(string text)
        {
            char[] charArray = text.ToCharArray();
            int length = text.Length - 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++, length--)
            {
                charArray[i] ^= charArray[length];
                charArray[length] ^= charArray[i];
                charArray[i] ^= charArray[length];
            }

            return new string(charArray);
        }


        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string testString = string.Join(";", new string[] {
                new string('a', 100), 
                new string('b', 101), 
                new string('c', 102), 
                new string('d', 103),                                                                   
            });
            int cycleCount = 100000;

            Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
            stopwatch.Start();
            for (int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i++) 
            {
                ReverseUsingCharacterBuffer(testString);
            }
            stopwatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ReverseUsingCharacterBuffer: " + stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

            stopwatch.Reset();
            stopwatch.Start();
            for (int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i++) 
            {
                ReverseUsingArrayClass(testString);
            }
            stopwatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ReverseUsingArrayClass: " + stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

            stopwatch.Reset();
            stopwatch.Start();
            for (int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i++) 
            {
                ReverseUsingStringBuilder(testString);
            }
            stopwatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ReverseUsingStringBuilder: " + stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

            stopwatch.Reset();
            stopwatch.Start();
            for (int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i++) 
            {
                ReverseUsingStack(testString);
            }
            stopwatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ReverseUsingStack: " + stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

            stopwatch.Reset();
            stopwatch.Start();
            for (int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i++) 
            {
                ReverseUsingXOR(testString);
            }
            stopwatch.Stop();
            Console.WriteLine("ReverseUsingXOR: " + stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");            
        }
    }
}

结果:

ReverseUsingCharacterBuffer: 346毫秒 ReverseUsingArrayClass: 87毫秒 ReverseUsingStringBuilder: 824毫秒 ReverseUsingStack: 2086毫秒 ReverseUsingXOR: 319毫秒