reverse-sentence.rs

use std::strbuf::StrBuf;

fn reverse_sentence(sentence: ~str) -> ~str {

    let mut buffer = StrBuf::new();
    let mut string_vector: Vec<~str> = Vec::new();

    for word in sentence.split(' ') {
        string_vector.push(word.to_owned());
    }

    for word in string_vector.iter().rev() {
        buffer.push_str(word.clone());
        buffer.push_str(" ");
    }

    buffer.into_owned()
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", reverse_sentence(~"This is a sentence containing words"));
}

// irukandji% ./reverse-sentence
// words containing sentence a is This