How do you rotate a two dimensional array?

Question

Inspired by Raymond Chen\'s post, say you have a 4x4 two dimensional array, write a function that rotates it 90 degrees. Raymond links to a solution in pseudo code, but I\'d

Answer 1

@dagorym: Aw, man. I had been hanging onto this as a good "I'm bored, what can I ponder" puzzle. I came up with my in-place transposition code, but got here to find yours pretty much identical to mine...ah, well. Here it is in Ruby.

require 'pp'
n = 10
a = []
n.times { a << (1..n).to_a }

pp a

0.upto(n/2-1) do |i|
  i.upto(n-i-2) do |j|
    tmp             = a[i][j]
    a[i][j]         = a[n-j-1][i]
    a[n-j-1][i]     = a[n-i-1][n-j-1]
    a[n-i-1][n-j-1] = a[j][n-i-1]
    a[j][n-i-1]     = tmp
  end
end

pp a