Thread: Java Recursion reversing my strings

 
import java.util.ArrayList;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 
 
public class ReverseWords {
 
     static Scanner Scan = new Scanner (System.in);
 
 
 
    public static void main(String args[]) {
 
        System.out.println("Enter a list of words, one per line.  Final word should be a period (.)");
 
        String words = Scan.nextLine();
 
        reverseRecursively (words);
 
    }
 
 
 
 
 
    public static void reverseRecursively(String words)
 
    {
 
        int i;
 
        ArrayList<String> WordLists = new ArrayList<String>();
 
        for ( i = 0; i < WordLists.toArray().length; i++)
 
            WordLists.add(words);
 
        if (words.equals("."))
 
        {
 
 
 
                System.out.println(WordLists.toArray()[i]);
 
            System.out.println("Period");
 
        }
 
        else
 
        {
 
            System.out.println("Enter New Word");
 
                words = Scan.nextLine();
 
            WordLists.add(words);
 
            reverseRecursively(words);
 
        }
 
    }
 
}

Please help me. Why isn't my code working?

The mode is supposed to take one word at a time from the user, for example, "Tim" "Likes" "Dogs" ".". When the period is entered it will end the recursion and return "Dogs" "Like" "Time". When I added Print statements it was recognizing the period and when to continue. It just refuses to output the actual words.

been up for 24+ hours. I have been literally trying everything and this was the closet I came to actually getting input.

Thanks mate. Been doing this for the better part of 7 hours. Just getting annoyed/desperate haha. Thanks again.