Text Reverser

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What to reverse

Result

ResultарозА упал ан алапу азор А
Palindromethis is a palindrome
Characters26
Words6
Lines1
Modecharacter order

Three different ways to reverse

Reverses text by character, by word or by line, and checks whether it is a palindrome.

Text can be reversed three ways and they produce quite different results. Reversing characters turns a phrase into letters backwards, reversing words keeps the words but flips their order, reversing lines turns a list upside down.

One subtlety is emoji and rare characters. They occupy two units in memory, and a naive string reversal breaks them. Here the text is split by code point, so the characters survive intact.

What this calculator shows

The reversed text in the mode you choose
Counts of characters, words and lines
Whether the text is a palindrome

What to keep in mind

Splitting is by code point, so emoji and characters beyond the basic plane are not destroyed.
The palindrome check ignores spaces, punctuation and case.

FAQs

Why reverse text?

To check palindromes, for puzzles and ciphers, and when working with right-to-left strings. Reversing lines is a quick way to flip a list.

Do emoji break when reversed?

Not here. A naive reversal in most editors destroys characters made of a surrogate pair, which is why splitting is done by code point.

How is a palindrome checked?

Spaces and punctuation are stripped, everything is lowercased, and the result is compared with its own reverse.

What is word reversal?

Flipping the order of the words while keeping the words intact. 'I am going home' becomes 'home going am I'.

Worked example

A classic palindrome

Input: A rose upala na lapu Azora

Output: The reversed text matches the original

Note: The check strips spaces and lowercases everything, so the phrase is recognised despite the capitals. Reversing words would have given something entirely different.

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