string manipulation in java part 1: reverse a string

In these series, I'll try to provide code fragments for daily problems in string manipulation. First, we will see how to reverse a string. Note that there are -naturally- more than one way to do this.

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01	public class StringUtils {

02	public static String reverseString(String string){

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/*

04	Check if the string is not null and empty

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*/

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07	if(string != null && !string.isEmpty()){

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/*

10	Create a StringBuilder from the string in hand

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*/

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13	StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder(string);

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/*

16	Reverse the StringBuilder content and return it as a String

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*/

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19	return str.reverse().toString();

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}

21	return null;

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}

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24	public static void main(String[] args){

25	System.out.println(StringUtils.reverseString("I am your father"));

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}

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}

Output is "rehtaf ruoy ma I".
It is possible to use StringBuffer instead of StringBuilder. As I don't need thread safety I'll pick StringBuilder which's faster. Quite easy to reverse a string, right?