Chapter 11, Problem 5PC

Palindrome Testing

A palindrome is a string that reads the same backward as forward. For example, the words worn, dad, madam and radar are all palindromes. Write a class Pstring that is derived from the STL string class. The Pstring class adds a member function

bool isPalindrome( )

that determines whether the string is a palindrome. Include a constructor that takes an STL string object as parameter and passes it to the string base class constructor. Test your class by having a main program that asks the user to enter a string. The program uses the string to initialize a Pstring object and then calls isPalindrome() to determine whether the string entered is a palindrome.

You may find it useful to use the subscript operator [ ] of the string class: If str is a string object and k is an integer, then str[k] returns the character at position k in the string.