LeetCode解题思路：557. Reverse Words in a String III

Given a string, you need to reverse the order of characters in each word within a sentence while still preserving whitespace and initial word order.

Example 1:

Input: "Let's take LeetCode contest"
Output: "s'teL ekat edoCteeL tsetnoc"

 

Note: In the string, each word is separated by single space and there will not be any extra space in the string.

题意：把输入的字符串单词的顺序不变，单词中字母顺序逆置，测试中所给的字符串中不会有两个相连的空格。

基本思路：

1. 查单词，把从开始到空格、空格之间和空格到结束之间的单词分别保存在一个字符串数组中，当结束时，把字符串数组中的每个单词倒置，然后按顺序输出中间插入空格。

这种方法虽然条理清晰，但是用了大量的额外空间，而且相当于要遍历三次，所以不推荐使用。

2. 下面这种方式没有使用额外空间就对每个单词进行头尾交换。代码如下

char* reverseWords(char* s) {
    char *beg = s;
    char *end = s;
    char temp = 0;
    while(*beg != '\0')
    {
        if(*beg == ' '){
            ++beg;
            ++end;
        }else if(*end == '\0' || *end == ' ')
        {
            char *ps = beg, *pe = end-1;
            while(ps <pe){
                temp = *ps;
                *ps = *pe;
                *pe = temp;
                ps++;
                pe--;
            }
            beg = end;
        }else
            end++;
    }
    return s;
}

写的简洁一点就是

class Solution {
public:
    string reverseWords(string s) {
        size_t front = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i <= s.length(); ++i)
            if(i == s.length() || s[i] == 0x20){
                reverse(&s[front], &s[i]);
                front = i + 1;
            }        
        return s;
    }
};

使用c++的reverse函数而不自定义反转函数，关于reverse函数：http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/reverse/