Given a string, write a C/C++ program to reverse it.

1. Write own reverse function by swapping characters: One simple solution is to write our own reverse function to reverse a string in C++.

   
   

   
   
   

   // A Simple C++ program to reverse a string #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;    // Function to reverse a string void reverseStr(string& str) {     int n = str.length();        // Swap character starting from two     // corners     for (int i = 0; i < n / 2; i++)         swap(str[i], str[n - i - 1]); }    // Driver program int main() {     string str = "geeksforgeeks";     reverseStr(str);     cout << str;     return 0; }

   Output :

   skeegrofskeeg





2. Using inbuilt “reverse” function: There is a direct function in “algorithm” header file for doing reverse that saves our time when programming.

   // Reverses elements in [begin, end]
   void reverse (BidirectionalIterator begin, 
   BidirectionalIterator end);
   

   
   

   
   
   

   // A quickly written program for reversing a string // using reverse() #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() {     string str = "geeksforgeeks";        // Reverse str[begin..end]     reverse(str.begin(), str.end());        cout << str;     return 0; }

   Output :

   skeegrofskeeg

3. Only printing reverse:

   
   

   
   
   

   // C++ program to print reverse of a string #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;    // Function to reverse a string void reverse(string str) {    for (int i=str.length()-1; i>=0; i--)       cout << str[i];  }    // Driver code int main(void) {     string s = "GeeksforGeeks";     reverse(s);     return (0); }

   Output:

   
   
   
   

   skeegrofskeeG
   

4. Getting reverse of a const string:

   
   

   
   
   

   // C++ program to get reverse of a const string #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;    // Function to reverse string and return // reverse string pointer of that char* reverseConstString(char const* str) {     // find length of string     int n = strlen(str);        // create a dynamic pointer char array     char *rev = new char[n+1];        // copy of string to ptr array     strcpy(rev, str);        // Swap character starting from two     // corners     for (int i=0, j=n-1; i<j; i++,j--)         swap(rev[i], rev[j]);                   // return pointer of the reversed string     return rev; }    // Driver code int main(void) {     const char *s = "GeeksforGeeks";     printf("%s", reverseConstString(s));     return (0); }

   Output:

   skeeGrofskeeG
   

5. Reverse string using the constructor : Passing reverse iterators to the constructor returns us a reversed string.

   
   

   
   
   

   // A simple C++ program to reverse string using constructor  #include <bits/stdc++.h>  using namespace std;  int main(){        string str = "GeeksforGeeks";        //Use of reverse iterators     string rev = string(str.rbegin(),str.rend());        cout<<rev<<endl;      return 0; }

   Output:

   skeeGrofskeeG
   

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