Creating a recursive method for Palindrome

Question

I am trying to create a Palindrome program using recursion within Java but I am stuck, this is what I have so far:

 public static void main (String[] args){
         


        

Answer 1

there's no code smaller than this:

public static boolean palindrome(String x){
    return (x.charAt(0) == x.charAt(x.length()-1)) && 
        (x.length()<4 || palindrome(x.substring(1, x.length()-1)));
}

if you want to check something:

public static boolean palindrome(String x){
    if(x==null || x.length()==0){
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a valid string.");
    }
    return (x.charAt(0) == x.charAt(x.length()-1)) && 
        (x.length()<4 || palindrome(x.substring(1, x.length()-1)));
}

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