Merge two sorted arrays in place
Given two sorted integer arrays nums1 and nums2, merge nums2 into nums1 as one sorted array.
Note: You may assume that nums1 has enough space (size that is greater or equal tom+n) to hold additional elements from nums2. The number of elements initialized in nums1 and nums2 are 'm' and 'n' respectively.
class Solution(object):
def merge(self, nums1, m, nums2, n):
"""
:type nums1: List[int]
:type m: int
:type nums2: List[int]
:type n: int
:rtype: void Do not return anything, modify nums1 in-place instead.
"""
#print 'nums1: ', nums1
#print 'nums2: ', nums2
# The idea here is to use the empty space to the right of nums1 array. Also traverse from greatest to lowest
i = m - 1
j = n - 1
k = m + n - 1
while i >= 0 and j >= 0:
if nums1[i] >= nums2[j]:
nums1[k] = nums1[i]
i -= 1
else:
nums1[k] = nums2[j]
j -= 1
k -= 1
while i >= 0:
nums1[k] = nums1[i]
i -= 1
k -= 1
while j >= 0:
nums1[k] = nums2[j]
j -= 1
k -= 1Last updated
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