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Rearrange Words in a Sentence

Rearrange Words in a Sentence: a C++ solution using direct simulation. Learn the idea, check the complexity, and read the full code, with credit to Kamyu LeetCode Solutions.

Technique
Direct simulation
Source
Kamyu LeetCode Solutions
Length
56 lines
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Approach

Direct simulation

For Rearrange Words in a Sentence, the implementation follows the problem’s operations directly while maintaining only the state needed for the next decision.

  1. Translate each rule into one explicit state update.
  2. Maintain the invariant after every processed item.
  3. Return the accumulated state once all relevant input has been handled.

Code notes

  • 56 lines of C++ from the credited upstream file rearrange-words-in-a-sentence.cpp.
  • The implementation visibly relies on sequence storage, ordered lookup.
  • 4 loop blocks detected.

Complexity

Count the number and nesting of passes over the input, then include the maintained containers in the memory estimate.

Check the problem constraints before deciding whether this complexity will pass.

Source

Code and credit

This code comes from Kamyu LeetCode Solutions by kamyu104 and is used under the MIT licence.

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Full codeRearrange Words in a Sentence · C++C++
Use this to learn the idea, then write your own version.
// Time:  O(nlogn)// Space: O(n) class Solution {public:    string arrangeWords(string text) {        text.front() = tolower(text.front());        stringstream ss(text);        string word;        map<int, string> lookup;        while (ss >> word) {            lookup[word.size()] += word + " ";        }        string result;        for (const auto& [_, word]: lookup) {            result += word;        }        result.pop_back();        result.front() = toupper(result.front());        return result;    }}; // Time:  O(nlogn)// Space: O(n)class Solution2 {public:    string arrangeWords(string text) {        text.front() = tolower(text.front());        auto words = split(text, ' ');        stable_sort(begin(words), end(words),                    [](const string &s1, const string &s2) {                        return s1.size() < s2.size();                    });        string result;        for (const auto& word : words) {            result += word + " ";        }        result.pop_back();        result.front() = toupper(result.front());        return result;    } private:    vector<string> split(const string& s, const char delim) {        vector<string> result;        auto end = string::npos;        do {            const auto& start = end + 1;            end = s.find(delim, start);            result.emplace_back(s.substr(start, end - start));        } while (end != string::npos);         return result;    }};

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