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Given a String “123123246” add a single ‘+’ and a single ‘=’ sign to create a true expression. Then do it with binary.

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class GoFigure
{
public static String goFigureDecimal(String str)
   {
     String ans = str;
     for(int i = 1; i<str.length(); i++)
     {
       for(int d = i+1; d<str.length(); d++ )
       {
         int left, middle, right;
         try
         {
          left = Integer.parseInt(str.substring(0, i));
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;        
         } 
         try
         {  
          middle = Integer.parseInt(str.substring(i, d));
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;
         }
         try
         {
          right = Integer.parseInt(str.substring(d, str.length()) );
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;
         }
         System.out.println(left + " " + middle + " " + right);
         if( left + middle == right ) 
         {
           return str.substring(0, i) + "+" + str.substring(i, d) + "=" + str.substring(d, str.length());
         }
       }
     }
     return "Not Possible";

}

   public static String goFigureBinary(String str)
{
     String ans = str;
     for(int i = 1; i<str.length(); i++)
     {
       for(int d = i; d<str.length(); d++ )
       {
         String left, middle, right;
         try
         {
          left = str.substring(0, i);
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;        
         } 
         try
         {  
          middle = (str.substring(i, d));
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;
         }
         try
         {
          right = str.substring(d, str.length());
         }
         catch(Exception e)
         {
           continue;
         }
         System.out.println(left + " " + middle + " " + right);
         if( addBinary(left, middle).equals(right) ) 
         {
           return str.substring(0, i) + "+" + str.substring(i, d) + "=" + str.substring(d, str.length());
         }
       }
     }
     return "Not Possible";

}

private static String addBinary(String a, String b) 
    { 
        String result = "";  
        int s = 0;          
        int i = a.length() - 1, j = b.length() - 1; 
        while (i >= 0 || j >= 0 || s == 1) 
        { 
            s += ((i >= 0)? a.charAt(i) - '0': 0); 
            s += ((j >= 0)? b.charAt(j) - '0': 0); 
            result = (char)(s % 2 + '0') + result; 
            s /= 2; 
            i--; j--; 
        }      
    return result; 
    } 
    
    
}
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