title: A boolean palindrome in Java
body: <p>So I've been assigned the following problem and I don't even know where to start.  Is he wanting the palindrome's pulled from an array? All of the research I've done online about palindrome's, none of them use boolean values.  Thanks in advance. Programming isn't my forte to say the least.  </p>
  
  <p>Problem 2.1. (5 points) Write a program that accepts a string of characters terminated by a period and determines whether the string (without the period) is a palindrome. Assume that the input contains only letters and blanks. Assume also that the input is at most 30 characters long. Disregard blanks when deciding if a string is a palindrome and consider upper and lower case version of the same letter to be equivalent. Provide a static method palindrome</p>
  
  <pre><code> public static boolean palindrome(char[] a, int number)
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  <p>that accepts a char array containing the characters of the input string, and an integer defining the number of characters in the string.</p>