java A palindrome is a word or a phrase that is the same when read both forward and backward. Examples are: "bob," "sees," or "never odd or even" (ignoring spaces). Write a program whose input is a word or phrase, and that outputs whether the input is a palindrome. Ex: If the input is: bob the output is: bob is a palindrome

import java. util. Scanner;

public class num8 {

public static boolean isPali (String word)

{

int i = 0, j = word. length () - 1;

/ / compare characters

while (i < j) {

/ / check for match

if (word. charAt (i) ! = word. charAt (j))

return false;

i++;

j--;

}

return true;

}

/ / Main Method

public static void main (String[] args)

{

Scanner in = new Scanner (System. in);

System. out. println ("Enter a word to test for palidrone");

String str = in. nextLine ();

if (isPali (str))

System. out. print (str+" is Palidrone");

else

System. out. print (str + "is not palidrone");

}

}

Explanation:

Create a method that returns a boolean called isPali (). Using a while statement check if if (word. charAt (i) ! = word. charAt (j)) given that i = starts at 0 and j starts at last character in the word. If there is match for each character, return true else return false In the main method use the scanner class to prompt user for a word call the method isPali () and pass the word entered as argument.