Kotlin Program to Check Leap Year
In this program, you’ll learn to check if the given year is a leap year or not in Kotlin. This is checked using a if else statement and a when statement.
A leap year is exactly divisible by 4 except for century years (years ending with 00). The century year is a leap year only if it is perfectly divisible by 400.
Example 1: Kotlin Program to Check a Leap Year using if else statement
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val year = 1900
var leap = false
if (year % 4 == 0) {
if (year % 100 == 0) {
// year is divisible by 400, hence the year is a leap year
leap = year % 400 == 0
} else
leap = true
} else
leap = false
println(if (leap) "$year is a leap year." else "$year is not a leap year.")
}
When you run the program, the output will be:
1900 is not a leap year.
In the above program, given year 1900 is stored in the variable year.
- Since 1900 is divisble by 4 and is also a century year (ending with 00), it has be divisble by 400 for a leap year. Since it’s not divisible by 400, 1900 is not a leap year.
- But, if we change the year to 2000, it is divisible by 4, is a century year and is also divisible by 400. So, 2000 is a leap year.
- Likewise, If we change the year to 2012, it is divisible by 4 and is not a century year, so 2012 a leap year. We don’t need to check if 2012 is divisible by 400 or not.
Example 2: Kotlin Program to Check Leap Year using when expression
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val year = 2012
var leap = false
leap = when {
year % 4 == 0 -> {
when {
year % 100 == 0 -> year % 400 == 0
else -> true
}
}
else -> false
}
println(if (leap) "$year is a leap year." else "$year is not a leap year.")
}
When run the program, the output will be:
2012 is a leap year.
In the above program, instead of using an if else statement, we have used a when expression.
The when
expression works as:
- When year is divisible by 4
- Another
when
expression is entered which checks if year is divisible by 100- If yes, it again checks if year is divisble by 400 or not, and returns
true
orfalse
- If yes, it again checks if year is divisble by 400 or not, and returns
- If not divisble by 100, year is not a century year (ending with 00) and returns
true
- Another
- If year is not divisible by 4, it returns
false
Based on the value of leap, it prints the output using an inline if else.