186. Reverse Words in a String II 🔒

Description

Given a character array s, reverse the order of the words.

A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters. The words in s will be separated by a single space.

Your code must solve the problem in-place, i.e. without allocating extra space.

Example 1:

Input: s = ["t","h","e"," ","s","k","y"," ","i","s"," ","b","l","u","e"]
Output: ["b","l","u","e"," ","i","s"," ","s","k","y"," ","t","h","e"]

Example 2:

Input: s = ["a"]
Output: ["a"]

Constraints:

1 <= s.length <= 10⁵
s[i] is an English letter (uppercase or lowercase), digit, or space ' '.
There is at least one word in s.
s does not contain leading or trailing spaces.
All the words in s are guaranteed to be separated by a single space.

Solutions

Solution 1: Two Pointers

We can iterate through the character array $s$, using two pointers $i$ and $j$ to find the start and end positions of each word, then reverse each word, and finally reverse the entire character array.

The time complexity is $O(n)$, where $n$ is the length of the character array $s$. The space complexity is $O(1)$.

Python3JavaC++GoTypeScript

class Solution:
    def reverseWords(self, s: List[str]) -> None:
        def reverse(i: int, j: int):
            while i < j:
                s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
                i, j = i + 1, j - 1

        i, n = 0, len(s)
        for j, c in enumerate(s):
            if c == " ":
                reverse(i, j - 1)
                i = j + 1
            elif j == n - 1:
                reverse(i, j)
        reverse(0, n - 1)

class Solution {
    public void reverseWords(char[] s) {
        int n = s.length;
        for (int i = 0, j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
            if (s[j] == ' ') {
                reverse(s, i, j - 1);
                i = j + 1;
            } else if (j == n - 1) {
                reverse(s, i, j);
            }
        }
        reverse(s, 0, n - 1);
    }

    private void reverse(char[] s, int i, int j) {
        for (; i < j; ++i, --j) {
            char t = s[i];
            s[i] = s[j];
            s[j] = t;
        }
    }
}

class Solution {
public:
    void reverseWords(vector<char>& s) {
        auto reverse = [&](int i, int j) {
            for (; i < j; ++i, --j) {
                swap(s[i], s[j]);
            }
        };
        int n = s.size();
        for (int i = 0, j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
            if (s[j] == ' ') {
                reverse(i, j - 1);
                i = j + 1;
            } else if (j == n - 1) {
                reverse(i, j);
            }
        }
        reverse(0, n - 1);
    }
};

func reverseWords(s []byte) {
    reverse := func(i, j int) {
        for ; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
            s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
        }
    }
    i, n := 0, len(s)
    for j, c := range s {
        if c == ' ' {
            reverse(i, j-1)
            i = j + 1
        } else if j == n-1 {
            reverse(i, j)
        }
    }
    reverse(0, n-1)
}

/**
 Do not return anything, modify s in-place instead.
 */
function reverseWords(s: string[]): void {
    const n = s.length;
    const reverse = (i: number, j: number): void => {
        for (; i < j; ++i, --j) {
            [s[i], s[j]] = [s[j], s[i]];
        }
    };
    for (let i = 0, j = 0; j <= n; ++j) {
        if (s[j] === ' ') {
            reverse(i, j - 1);
            i = j + 1;
        } else if (j === n - 1) {
            reverse(i, j);
        }
    }
    reverse(0, n - 1);
}

186. Reverse Words in a String II 🔒

Description

Solutions

Solution 1: Two Pointers

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