Print all funny words in a string

We are given a sentence. Our task is to print all funny words/strings in that sentence.

What is a funny word ?

Reverse the given string. Iterate through each character of that string, compare the absolute difference in the ASCII values of the characters at positions 0 and 1, 1 and 2, 2 and 3 and so on to the end. If the list of absolute differences is the same for both strings, they are funny otherwise not.
Examples:

Input  : HKMNPS
Output : Yes
Let r be the reverse of original string s
s = "HKMNPS"
r = "SPNMKH"  
|H-K| = 3  = |S-P|         
|K-M| = 2  = |P-N|     
|M-N| = 1  = |N-M|
|N-P| = 2  = |M-K|
|P-S| = 3  = |K-H|
Since each comparison is equal so given string is funny

Input  : bdwy 
Output : No

Recommended: Please try your approach on {IDE} first, before moving on to the solution.

NOTE : Every palindrome string is a funny string but not vice-versa.

The idea is to split string into words. For every word, traverse it from both ends and compare differences between adjacent characters.

Java

class Funny { 
    static boolean checkFunny(String word) 
    { 
        int i = 1; 
        int j = word.length() - 2; 
        word = word.toLowerCase(); 
        while (i <= j) { 
            if ((Math.abs(word.charAt(i) - word.charAt(i - 1))) !=  
                   Math.abs((word.charAt(j) - word.charAt(j + 1)))) 
                return false; 
            i++; 
            j--; 
        } 
        return true; 
    } 
  
    static void printFunnyWords(String str) 
    { 
        // to extract last word of sentence 
        str = str + " "; 
  
        // to word stores each word of sentence 
        String word = ""; 
  
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) { 
            char ch = str.charAt(i); 
  
            // extracting each word 
            if (ch != ' ') 
                word = word + ch; 
            else { 
                if (Funny.checkFunny(word)) 
                    System.out.println(word); 
                word = ""; 
            } 
        } 
    } 
  
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
        Funny.printFunnyWords("Miss Arora teaches us malayalam bdwy "); 
    } 
} 

Python3

# Python program to print all funny words in a string 
def checkFunny(word): 
    i = 1
    j = len(word) - 2
    word = word.lower() 
      
    while (i <= j): 
        if ((abs(ord(word[i]) - ord(word[i - 1]))) 
           != abs((ord(word[j]) - ord(word[j + 1])))): 
            return False
        i = i + 1
        j = j - 1
    return True
      
def printFunnyWords(str): 
  
    # to extract last word of sentence 
    str = str + " "
  
    # to word stores each word of sentence 
    word = "" 
    i = 0
    for i in range(len(str)): 
        ch = str[i] 
  
        # extracting each word 
        if (ch != ' '): 
            word = word + ch 
        else: 
            if (checkFunny(word)): 
                print (word) 
            word = "" 
  
# Driver code 
printFunnyWords("Miss Arora teaches us malayalam bdwy ") 
  
# This code is contributed by Prateek Bajaj 

C#

// C# program to print funny string 
using System; 
  
class GFG 
{ 
public static bool checkFunny(string word) 
{ 
    int i = 1; 
    int j = word.Length - 2; 
    word = word.ToLower(); 
    while (i <= j) 
    { 
        if ((Math.Abs(word[i] -  
                      word[i - 1])) != Math.Abs((word[j] -  
                                                 word[j + 1]))) 
        { 
            return false; 
        } 
        i++; 
        j--; 
    } 
    return true; 
} 
  
public static void printFunnyWords(string str) 
{ 
    // to extract last word of sentence  
    str = str + " "; 
  
    // to word stores each word of sentence  
    string word = ""; 
  
    for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++) 
    { 
        char ch = str[i]; 
  
        // extracting each word  
        if (ch != ' ') 
        { 
            word = word + ch; 
        } 
        else
        { 
            if (GFG.checkFunny(word)) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine(word); 
            } 
            word = ""; 
        } 
    } 
} 
  
// Driver Code 
public static void Main(string[] args) 
{ 
    GFG.printFunnyWords("Miss Arora teaches us " +  
                               "malayalam bdwy "); 
} 
} 
  
// This code is contributed by Shrikant13 

Output:

Arora
us
malayalam
bdwy

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