Sort Colors LeetCode Solution

Difficulty Level Medium
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Problem Statement

Sort Colors LeetCode Solution – Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue.

We will use the integers 01, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue, respectively.

You must solve this problem without using the library’s sort function.

 

Example 1:

Input:

Sort Colors LeetCode Solution

 nums = [2,0,2,1,1,0]

Output:

 [0,0,1,1,2,2]

Example 2:

Input:

 nums = [2,0,1]

Output:

 [0,1,2]

 

Constraints:

  • n == nums.length
  • 1 <= n <= 300
  • nums[i] is either 01, or 2.

 

Follow up: Could you come up with a one-pass algorithm using only constant extra space?

 

Approach:

Idea1

Counting Sort

iterate the array and count  frequency of each element

here count is the frequency  of 0 ,count1 is freq of 1 and count 2 is frequency of 2

now iterate the array again and first place all 0 then 1 then 2

void sortColors(vector<int>& nums) {
     
       int n=nums.size();
      
       int count=0,count1=0,count2=0;
       
       for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
       {
           if(nums[i]==0)count++;
           else if(nums[i]==1)count1++;
           else if(nums[i]==2)count2++;
       }
       
       
       for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
       {
           if(count>0)
           {
               nums[i]=0;
               count--;
           }
           else if(count1>0)
           {
               nums[i]=1;
               count1--;
           }
           else
           {
               nums[i]=2;
           }
           
       }
       
       
       return ;
       
   }

Time Complexity:

O(2*n) where n is size of the array

as we iterate the array two times.

Space Complexity:

O(1) as we are not using extra space.

Idea2

  1. this is the dutch national flag algorithm approach
  2. make 3 pointer i,j k
  3. i represent that the ele from 0 to i-1 must be equal to 0.
  4.  j represent that the element from j+1 to last(i.e) must be equal to 2
  5. now we travere the array with the help of pointer k

 

       1.  if(nums[k]==0)we swap nums[i] ans nums[k] and do i++ and k++; as we know that (0 to i-1 all elements must be 0).

2. else if(nums[k]==2)we swap nums[i] and nums[k] and do j– as we know that (j+1 to n-1 all elements must be 2).

3. else if(nums[k]==1)we just do k++ as if all zeors are on the left and all twos are on the right than all ones must be in middle.

 

void sortColors(vector<int>& nums) {
     
       int n=nums.size();
       
       int i=0,j=n-1,k=0;
 
       while(k<=j)
       {
           if(nums[k]==1)
           {
               k++;
           }
           else if(nums[k]==0)
           {
               swap(nums[i],nums[k]);
               i++;   
               k++;
           }
           else if(nums[k]==2)
           {
               swap(nums[j],nums[k]);
               j--;
           }
           
               
           
       }
       
       return ;
   }
class Solution {
   public void sortColors(int[] nums) {
  int i = 0, j = nums.length - 1, k = 0;
    
    
  while( k <= j ) {
    if( nums[k] == 0 ) 
    {	
            swap(nums, i, k);
            i++;k++;
        }
    else if( nums[k] == 2)
    {
            swap(nums, j, k); 
           j--;
            
        }  
    else
      {
            k++;
        }
  }
}

public void swap(int[] nums, int i, int j) {
  int temp = nums[i];
  nums[i] = nums[j];
  nums[j] = temp;
}
}

Time Complexity:

O(n) where n is the size of the array

as we iterate the array only one time

Space Complexity:

O(1) as we are not using extra space.

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