Reverse Words In A String Problem


Description

LeetCode Problem 151.

Given an input string s, reverse the order of the words.

A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters. The words in s will be separated by at least one space.

Return a string of the words in reverse order concatenated by a single space.

Note that s may contain leading or trailing spaces or multiple spaces between two words. The returned string should only have a single space separating the words. Do not include any extra spaces.

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

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

Example 3:

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Input: s = "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.

Example 4:

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Input: s = "  Bob    Loves  Alice   "
Output: "Alice Loves Bob"

Example 5:

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Input: s = "Alice does not even like bob"
Output: "bob like even not does Alice"

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 10^4
  • s contains English letters (upper-case and lower-case), digits, and spaces ‘ ‘.
  • There is at least one word in s.


Sample C++ Code

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class Solution {
public:
    void reverseword(string &s, int i, int j){
        while(i<j){
          char t=s[i];
          s[i++]=s[j];
          s[j--]=t;
        } 
    }
    
    void reverseWords(string &s) {
        int i=0, j=0;
        int l=0;
        int len=s.length();
        int wordcount=0;
        
        while(true){
            while(i<len && s[i] == ' ') i++;  
            if(i==len) break;
            if(wordcount) s[j++]=' ';
            l=j;
            while(i<len && s[i] != ' ') {s[j]=s[i]; j++; i++;} 
            reverseword(s,l,j-1);              
            wordcount++;
            
        }
        
        s.resize(j);                          
        reverseword(s,0,j-1);                
    }
};




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