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I see no reason why that should be any clearer. Exactly the opposite in fact.
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If a redundant ==true adds clarity, does that make (front==true)==true even more clear?
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Very funny. But not terribly amusing or informative. You choose your level of clarity.
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 &nbsp;int p=front?1:str.length();<br />
&nbsp; return str.substring(p-1,p);
</blockquote>
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can you please elaborate on this one. If front is true then p becomes 1 otherwise it becomes str.length().<br />
And you are taking that p inside substring method?
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While I like using the ternary operator in if-then-else operations, I don't know if it constitutes and &quot;improvement&quot; over what gudii9 wrote, which is perfectly fine.
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While I like using the ternary operator . . . 
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I didn't say it was an improvement. I said :<br />
<br />

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You could also :<br />

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And improvements are classified how, would you say?
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I didn't mean to infer you thought it was an improvement, just that the asker stated &quot;i would like to know how can improve on my above code.&quot; I was trying to say that, as a practice, personally I would prefer the ternary method that you offered, but the asker's method was perfectly okay as well.
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Well by my metrics, gudii's code is roughly twice as fast as ozo's solution, while my ternary is four times faster very roughly. I don't know if that could be considered an improvement that would justify my comment.<br />
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If not, then I suppose I merely made a comment.
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<blockquote>
 int p=front?1:str.length();<br />
&nbsp; return str.substring(p-1,p);<br />
<br />
<br />
can you please elaborate on this one. If front is true then p becomes 1 otherwise it becomes str.length().<br />
And you are taking that p inside substring method?
</blockquote>
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can you please advise on usage of p here. I wonder how this solution is related to the code i wrote.
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You already answered your own question here : &nbsp;<a href="http://ID: 40443150" rel="ugc nofollow">your own comment.</a>
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Hi,<br />
<br />
I am working on below challenge<br />
<a href="http://codingbat.com/prob/p162477" rel="ugc">http://codingbat.com/prob/p162477</a><br />
i wrote as below<br />

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-10-28562065-1"><span>public String theEnd(String str, boolean front) {</span>
<span>if(front){</span>
<span>return str.substring(0,1);</span>
<span>}</span>
<span>  else{</span>
<span>  return str.substring(str.length()-1);</span>
<span></span>
<span>}</span>
<span>  </span>
<span>}</span>
</code></pre>
<br />
i would like to know how can improve on my above code. Thanks in advacne
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Hi,

I am working on below challenge
http://codingbat.com/prob/p162477
i wrote as below
(CODE)

i would like to know how can improve on my above code. Thanks in advacne

java string challenge

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Java

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Java EE

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