Reverse the ordering of words in a string

Question

I have this string s1 = \"My name is X Y Z\" and I want to reverse the order of the words so that s1 = \"Z Y X is name My\".

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Answer 1

You cannot do the reversal without at least some extra data structure. I think the smallest structure would be a single character as a buffer while you swap letters. It can still be considered "in place", but it's not completely "extra data structure free".

Below is code implementing what Bill the Lizard describes:

string words = "this is a test";

// Reverse the entire string
for(int i = 0; i < strlen(words) / 2; ++i) {
  char temp = words[i];
  words[i] = words[strlen(words) - i];
  words[strlen(words) - i] = temp;
}

// Reverse each word
for(int i = 0; i < strlen(words); ++i) {
  int wordstart = -1;
  int wordend = -1;
  if(words[i] != ' ') {
    wordstart = i;
    for(int j = wordstart; j < strlen(words); ++j) {
      if(words[j] == ' ') {
        wordend = j - 1;
        break;
      }
    }
    if(wordend == -1)
      wordend = strlen(words);
    for(int j = wordstart ; j <= (wordend + wordstart) / 2 ; ++j) {
      char temp = words[j];
      words[j] = words[wordend - (j - wordstart)];
      words[wordend - (j - wordstart)] = temp;
    }
    i = wordend;
  }
}