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

My version of using stack:

public class Solution {
    public String reverseWords(String s) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String ns= s.trim();
        Stack<Character> reverse = new Stack<Character>();
        boolean hadspace=false;

        //first pass
        for (int i=0; i< ns.length();i++){
            char c = ns.charAt(i);
            if (c==' '){
                if (!hadspace){
                    reverse.push(c);
                    hadspace=true;
                }
            }else{
                hadspace=false;
                reverse.push(c);
            }
        }
        Stack<Character> t = new Stack<Character>();
        while (!reverse.empty()){
            char temp =reverse.pop();
            if(temp==' '){
                //get the stack content out append to StringBuilder
                while (!t.empty()){
                    char c =t.pop();
                    sb.append(c);
                }
                sb.append(' ');
            }else{
                //push to stack
                t.push(temp);
            }
        }
        while (!t.empty()){
            char c =t.pop();
            sb.append(c);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

Answer 2

Store Each word as a string in array then print from end

public void rev2() {
    String str = "my name is ABCD";
    String A[] = str.split(" ");

    for (int i = A.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        if (i != 0) {
            System.out.print(A[i] + " ");
        } else {
            System.out.print(A[i]);
        }
    }

}

Answer 3

In Smalltalk:

'These pretzels are making me thirsty' subStrings reduce: [:a :b| b, ' ', a]

I know noone cares about Smalltalk, but it's so beautiful to me.

Answer 4

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string s1 =" My Name varma:;
        string[] arr = s1.Split(' ');
        Array.Reverse(arr);
        string str = string.Join(" ", arr);
        Console.WriteLine(str);
        Console.ReadLine();

    }
}

Answer 5

In Java using an additional String (with StringBuilder):

public static final String reverseWordsWithAdditionalStorage(String string) {
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

    char c = 0;
    int index = 0;
    int last = string.length();
    int length = string.length()-1;
    StringBuilder temp = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i=length; i>=0; i--) {
        c = string.charAt(i);
        if (c == SPACE || i==0) {
            index = (i==0)?0:i+1;
            temp.append(string.substring(index, last));
            if (index!=0) temp.append(c);
            builder.append(temp);
            temp.delete(0, temp.length());
            last = i;
        }
    }

    return builder.toString();
}

In Java in-place:

public static final String reverseWordsInPlace(String string) {
    char[] chars = string.toCharArray();

    int lengthI = 0;
    int lastI = 0;
    int lengthJ = 0;
    int lastJ = chars.length-1;

    int i = 0;
    char iChar = 0;
    char jChar = 0;
    while (i<chars.length && i<=lastJ) {
        iChar = chars[i];
        if (iChar == SPACE) {
            lengthI = i-lastI;
            for (int j=lastJ; j>=i; j--) {
                jChar = chars[j];
                if (jChar == SPACE) {
                    lengthJ = lastJ-j;
                    swapWords(lastI, i-1, j+1, lastJ, chars);
                    lastJ = lastJ-lengthI-1;
                    break;
                }
            }
            lastI = lastI+lengthJ+1;
            i = lastI;
        } else {
            i++;
        }
    }

    return String.valueOf(chars);
}

private static final void swapWords(int startA, int endA, int startB, int endB, char[] array) {
    int lengthA = endA-startA+1;
    int lengthB = endB-startB+1;

    int length = lengthA;
    if (lengthA>lengthB) length = lengthB;

    int indexA = 0;
    int indexB = 0;
    char c = 0;
    for (int i=0; i<length; i++) {
        indexA = startA+i;
        indexB = startB+i;

        c = array[indexB];
        array[indexB] = array[indexA];
        array[indexA] = c;
    }

    if (lengthB>lengthA) {
        length = lengthB-lengthA;
        int end = 0;
        for (int i=0; i<length; i++) {
            end = endB-((length-1)-i);
            c = array[end];
            shiftRight(endA+i,end,array);
            array[endA+1+i] = c;
        }
    } else if (lengthA>lengthB) {
        length = lengthA-lengthB;
        for (int i=0; i<length; i++) {
            c = array[endA];
            shiftLeft(endA,endB,array);
            array[endB+i] = c;
        }
    }
}

private static final void shiftRight(int start, int end, char[] array) {
    for (int i=end; i>start; i--) {
        array[i] = array[i-1];
    }
}

private static final void shiftLeft(int start, int end, char[] array) {
    for (int i=start; i<end; i++) {
        array[i] = array[i+1];
    }
}

Answer 6

Here is a C implementation that is doing the word reversing inlace, and it has O(n) complexity.

char* reverse(char *str, char wordend=0)
{
    char c;
    size_t len = 0;
    if (wordend==0) {
        len = strlen(str);
    }
    else {
        for(size_t i=0;str[i]!=wordend && str[i]!=0;i++)
            len = i+1;
    }
            for(size_t i=0;i<len/2;i++) {
                c = str[i];
                str[i] = str[len-i-1];
                str[len-i-1] = c;
            }
    return str;
}

char* inplace_reverse_words(char *w)
{
    reverse(w); // reverse all letters first
    bool is_word_start = (w[0]!=0x20);

    for(size_t i=0;i<strlen(w);i++){
        if(w[i]!=0x20 && is_word_start) {
            reverse(&w[i], 0x20); // reverse one word only
            is_word_start = false;
        }
        if (!is_word_start && w[i]==0x20) // found new word
            is_word_start = true;
    }
    return w;
}