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 using an additional array. I thought hard but is it possible to do it inplace (without using additional data structures) and with the time complexity being O(n)?

Answer 1

How about ...

var words = "My name is X Y Z";
var wr = String.Join( " ", words.Split(' ').Reverse().ToArray() );

I guess that's not in-line tho.

Answer 2

Reverse the entire string, then reverse the letters of each individual word.

After the first pass the string will be

s1 = "Z Y X si eman yM"

and after the second pass it will be

s1 = "Z Y X is name My"

Answer 3

It can be done more simple using sscanf:

void revertWords(char *s);
void revertString(char *s, int start, int n);
void revertWordsInString(char *s);

void revertString(char *s, int start, int end)
{
     while(start<end)
     {
         char temp = s[start];
         s[start] = s[end];
         s[end]=temp;
         start++;
         end --;
     }
}


void revertWords(char *s)
{
  int start = 0;

  char *temp = (char *)malloc(strlen(s) + 1);
  int numCharacters = 0;
  while(sscanf(&s[start], "%s", temp) !=EOF)
  {
      numCharacters = strlen(temp);

      revertString(s, start, start+numCharacters -1);
      start = start+numCharacters + 1;
      if(s[start-1] == 0)
      return;

  }
  free (temp);

}

void revertWordsInString(char *s)
{
   revertString(s,0, strlen(s)-1);
   revertWords(s);
}

int main()
{
   char *s= new char [strlen("abc deff gh1 jkl")+1];
   strcpy(s,"abc deff gh1 jkl");
   revertWordsInString(s);
   printf("%s",s);
   return 0;
}

Answer 4

Better version
Check my blog http://bamaracoulibaly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/19-reverse-order-of-words-in-text.html

public string reverseTheWords(string description)
{
    if(!(string.IsNullOrEmpty(description)) && (description.IndexOf(" ") > 1))
    {
        string[] words= description.Split(' ');
        Array.Reverse(words);
        foreach (string word in words)
        {
            string phrase = string.Join(" ", words);
            Console.WriteLine(phrase);
        }
        return phrase;
    }
    return description;
}

Answer 5

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 6

We can insert the string in a stack and when we extract the words, they will be in reverse order.

void ReverseWords(char Arr[])
{
    std::stack<std::string> s;
    char *str;
    int length = strlen(Arr);
    str = new char[length+1];
    std::string ReversedArr;
    str = strtok(Arr," ");
    while(str!= NULL)
    {
        s.push(str);
        str = strtok(NULL," ");
    }
    while(!s.empty())
    {
        ReversedArr = s.top();
        cout << " " << ReversedArr;
        s.pop();
    }
}