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\".

I can do it u

Answer 1

Actually, the first answer:

words = aString.split(" ");
for (i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
    words[i] = words[words.length-i];
}

does not work because it undoes in the second half of the loop the work it did in the first half. So, i < words.length/2 would work, but a clearer example is this:

words = aString.split(" "); // make up a list
i = 0; j = words.length - 1; // find the first and last elements
while (i < j) {
    temp = words[i]; words[i] = words[j]; words[j] = temp; //i.e. swap the elements
    i++; 
    j--;
}

Note: I am not familiar with the PHP syntax, and I have guessed incrementer and decrementer syntax since it seems to be similar to Perl.

Answer 2

reverse the string and then, in a second pass, reverse each word...

in c#, completely in-place without additional arrays:

static char[] ReverseAllWords(char[] in_text)
{
    int lindex = 0;
    int rindex = in_text.Length - 1;
    if (rindex > 1)
    {
        //reverse complete phrase
        in_text = ReverseString(in_text, 0, rindex);

        //reverse each word in resultant reversed phrase
        for (rindex = 0; rindex <= in_text.Length; rindex++)
        {
            if (rindex == in_text.Length || in_text[rindex] == ' ')
            {
                in_text = ReverseString(in_text, lindex, rindex - 1);
                lindex = rindex + 1;
            }
        }
    }
    return in_text;
}

static char[] ReverseString(char[] intext, int lindex, int rindex)
{
    char tempc;
    while (lindex < rindex)
    {
        tempc = intext[lindex];
        intext[lindex++] = intext[rindex];
        intext[rindex--] = tempc;
    }
    return intext;
}

Answer 3

In c, this is how you might do it, O(N) and only using O(1) data structures (i.e. a char).

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
main(){
  char* a = malloc(1000);
  fscanf(stdin, "%[^\0\n]", a);
  int x = 0, y;
  while(a[x]!='\0')
  {
    if (a[x]==' ' || a[x]=='\n')
    {
      x++;
    }
    else
    {
      y=x;
      while(a[y]!='\0' && a[y]!=' ' && a[y]!='\n')
      { 
        y++;
      }
      int z=y;
      while(x<y)
      {
        y--;
        char c=a[x];a[x]=a[y];a[y]=c; 
        x++;
      }
      x=z;
    }
  }

  fprintf(stdout,a);
  return 0;
}

Answer 4

import java.util.Scanner;

public class revString {
   static char[] str;

   public static void main(String[] args) {
    //Initialize string
    //str = new char[] { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'a', ' ', 'w', 'o',
    //'r', 'l', 'd' };
    getInput();

    // reverse entire string
    reverse(0, str.length - 1);

    // reverse the words (delimeted by space) back to normal
    int i = 0, j = 0;
    while (j < str.length) {

        if (str[j] == ' ' || j == str.length - 1) {

            int m = i;
            int n;

            //dont include space in the swap. 
            //(special case is end of line)
            if (j == str.length - 1)
                n = j;
            else
                n = j -1;


            //reuse reverse
            reverse(m, n);

            i = j + 1;

        }
        j++;
    }

    displayArray();
}

private static void reverse(int i, int j) {

    while (i < j) {

        char temp;
        temp = str[i];
        str[i] = str[j];
        str[j] = temp;

        i++;
        j--;
    }
}
private static void getInput() {
    System.out.print("Enter string to reverse: ");
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    str = scan.nextLine().trim().toCharArray(); 
}

private static void displayArray() {
    //Print the array
    for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
        System.out.print(str[i]);
    }
}

}

Answer 5

Not exactly in place, but anyway: Python:

>>> a = "These pretzels are making me thirsty"
>>> " ".join(a.split()[::-1])
'thirsty me making are pretzels These'

Answer 6

Printing words in reverse order of a given statement using C#:

    void ReverseWords(string str)
    {
        int j = 0;
        for (int i = (str.Length - 1); i >= 0; i--)
        {
            if (str[i] == ' ' || i == 0)
            {
                j = i == 0 ? i : i + 1;

                while (j < str.Length && str[j] != ' ')
                    Console.Write(str[j++]);
                Console.Write(' ');
            }
        }
    }