In C#, How can I determine if a given string is a palindrome or not?

Question

I'm currently wondering if when a given string (word), how can I determine if it is a palindrome or not. A palindrome is a word or phrase that is the same if read forward or backward. I think I can solve this by looping through the half the word and comparing each letter with the other half. An example for this could be: (word[0] == word[word.Length-1-0]) would compare the first letter with the last letter of word, and (word[1] == word[word.Length-1-1]) would compare the second letter with the second to last letter.

• Example Input could be: racecar

• Example Output: True

Am I approaching this problem correctly towards the proper solution?

Here's a bit of I've written down so far.

public bool Test6(string word)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < word.Length; i++)
            {
                if (word[0] == word[word.Length - 1 - 0])
                {

                }

Answer 1

Please follow this link http://www.dotnetperls.com/palindrome

You can do it using this example without using any built in method :

using System;

class Program
{
    public static bool IsPalindrome(string value)
    {
    int min = 0;
    int max = value.Length - 1;
    while (true)
    {
        if (min > max)
        {
        return true;
        }
        char a = value[min];
        char b = value[max];
        if (char.ToLower(a) != char.ToLower(b))
        {
        return false;
        }
        min++;
        max--;
    }
    }

    static void Main()
    {
    string[] array =
    {
        "civic",
        "deified",
        "deleveled",
        "devoved",
        "dewed",
        "Hannah",
        "kayak",
        "level",
        "madam",
        "racecar",
        "radar",
        "redder",
        "refer",
        "repaper",
        "reviver",
        "rotator",
        "rotor",
        "sagas",
        "solos",
        "sexes",
        "stats",
        "tenet",

        "Dot",
        "Net",
        "Perls",
        "Is",
        "Not",
        "A",
        "Palindrome",
        ""
    };

    foreach (string value in array)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", value, IsPalindrome(value));
    }
    }
}