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Published inApr 2018
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ISBN-139781788835213
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Wisnu Anggoro
Wisnu Anggoro
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Wisnu Anggoro

Wisnu Anggoro is a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# programming and an experienced C/C++ developer. He has also authored the books Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming - Second Edition and Functional C# by Packt. He has been programming since he was in junior high school, which was about 20 years ago, and started developing computer applications using the BASIC programming language in the MS-DOS environment. He has solid experience in smart card programming, as well as desktop and web application programming, including designing, developing, and supporting the use of applications for SIM Card Operating System Porting, personalization, PC/SC communication, and other smart card applications that require the use of C# and C/C++. He is currently a senior smart card software engineer at CIPTA, an Indonesian company that specializes in innovation and technology for smart cards. He can be reached through his email at wisnu@anggoro.net
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Playing with words


A collection of characters is used to construct a word or a sentence. The position of each character in a word matters, since different character positions can cause the word to have different meanings. For example, when you rearrange the characters in God, you will get Dog.

There are two methods in strings to find another word from a word, or to ensure a word has exactly the same spelling both forward and backward. Let's play with them.

Rearranging a word to create an anagram

An anagram is a word that is produced by rearranging the letters of the word itself. Let's take a look at the word ELBOW. We can say that BELOW is anagram of ELBOW, since BELOW uses all the original letters of ELBOW exactly once. Not only from one word, an anagram can also be created from, and can create, two or more words: SCHOOL MASTER is an anagram of THE CLASSROOM, or FOURTH OF JULY is an anagram of JOYFUL FOURTH.

Checking whether two strings are an anagram or not is quite easy. We just need to sort...

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Wisnu Anggoro

Wisnu Anggoro is a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# programming and an experienced C/C++ developer. He has also authored the books Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming - Second Edition and Functional C# by Packt. He has been programming since he was in junior high school, which was about 20 years ago, and started developing computer applications using the BASIC programming language in the MS-DOS environment. He has solid experience in smart card programming, as well as desktop and web application programming, including designing, developing, and supporting the use of applications for SIM Card Operating System Porting, personalization, PC/SC communication, and other smart card applications that require the use of C# and C/C++. He is currently a senior smart card software engineer at CIPTA, an Indonesian company that specializes in innovation and technology for smart cards. He can be reached through his email at wisnu@anggoro.net
Read more about Wisnu Anggoro