Leetcode151-reverseWordsInAString

Description

Given an input string, reverse the string word by word.

Example

Example 1:

Input: "the sky is blue"
Output: "blue is sky the"

Example 2:

Input: "  hello world!  "
Output: "world! hello"
Explanation: Your reversed string should not contain leading or trailing spaces.

Example 3:

Input: "a good   example"
Output: "example good a"
Explanation: You need to reduce multiple spaces between two words to a single space in the reversed string.

Note:

• A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters.
• Input string may contain leading or trailing spaces. However, your reversed string should not contain leading or trailing spaces.
• You need to reduce multiple spaces between two words to a single space in the reversed string.

Follow up:

For C programmers, try to solve it in-place in O(1) extra space.

Solution

class Solution {
    public String reverseWords(String s) {
        if (s == null || s.length() == 0) return "";
        String[] arr = s.trim().split("\\s+");
        String res = "";
        for (int i = arr.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
            res += arr[i] + " ";
        }
        res += arr[0];
        return res;
    }
}

Method 2: Don’t use split/trim

public class Solution {
  
  public String reverseWords(String s) {
    if (s == null) return null;
    
    char[] a = s.toCharArray();
    int n = a.length;
    
    // step 1. reverse the whole string
    reverse(a, 0, n - 1);
    // step 2. reverse each word
    reverseWords(a, n);
    // step 3. clean up spaces
    return cleanSpaces(a, n);
  }
  
  void reverseWords(char[] a, int n) {
    int i = 0, j = 0;
      
    while (i < n) {
      while (i < j || i < n && a[i] == ' ') i++; // skip spaces
      while (j < i || j < n && a[j] != ' ') j++; // skip non spaces
      reverse(a, i, j - 1);                      // reverse the word
    }
  }
  
  // trim leading, trailing and multiple spaces
  String cleanSpaces(char[] a, int n) {
    int i = 0, j = 0;
      
    while (j < n) {
      while (j < n && a[j] == ' ') j++;             // skip spaces
      while (j < n && a[j] != ' ') a[i++] = a[j++]; // keep non spaces
      while (j < n && a[j] == ' ') j++;             // skip spaces
      if (j < n) a[i++] = ' ';                      // keep only one space
    }
  
    return new String(a).substring(0, i);
  }
  
  // reverse a[] from a[i] to a[j]
  private void reverse(char[] a, int i, int j) {
    while (i < j) {
      char t = a[i];
      a[i++] = a[j];
      a[j--] = t;
    }
  } 
}

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