Reverse every consecutive m-elements of a subarray

Problem

Given an array, reverse every sub-array formed by consecutive m elements.

Sample Input

[1, 2, 3, 4]     m = 3

Sample Output

[3, 2, 1, 4]

Approach

We can initially place a pointer i at ( m-1)th index of the array to reverse the first m elements’ subarray by traversing floor( m /2) times backward. After performing this, we can increment i by m and perform a similar task on the remaining subarrays.

Note that if the size of the array is not divisible by m , then we will need to reverse remainder separately (n % m) elements. This approach takes O(N) time and O(1) auxiliary space.

C++ Programming

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

// function to reverse in groups
void reverseInGroups(int arr[], int n, int m){
        int i=m-1;
        while(i<n){
            int l2 = i;
            int l1 = i-(m-1);
            for(int count=1;count<=(m/2);count++){
                //traverse subarray backwards and swap elements
                swap(arr[l2],arr[l1]);
                l1++;
                l2--;
            }
            i+=m;
        }
        int rem = n%m;    //handle remaining elements
        int l2 = n-1;
        int l1 = l2 - (rem-1);
        for(int count=1;count<=(rem/2);count++){
            swap(arr[l2], arr[l1]);
            l2--;
            l1++;
        }
    }
int main(){
    int arr[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    int m = 3;
    reverseInGroups(arr, 5, m);
    for(int i=0; i<5; i++) cout<<arr[i]<<" ";
}

Output

3 2 1 5 4

C Programming

#include<stdio.h>

// function to reverse array in groups
void reverseInGroups(int arr[], int n, int m){
        int i=m-1;
        while(i<n){
            int l2 = i;
            int l1 = i-(m-1);
            for(int count=1;count<=(m/2);count++){   
            //traverse subarray backwards and swap elements
            int temp = arr[l1];
            arr[l1] = arr[l2];
            arr[l2] = temp;
                l1++;
                l2--;
            }
            i+=m;
        }
        int rem = n%m;    //handle remainder elements
        int l2 = n-1;
        int l1 = l2 - (rem-1);
        for(int count=1;count<=(rem/2);count++){
            int temp = arr[l1];
            arr[l1] = arr[l2];
            arr[l2] = temp;
            l2--;
            l1++;
        }
    }
void main(){
    int arr[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    int m = 3;
    reverseInGroups(arr, 5, m);
    for(int i=0; i<5; i++) printf("%d ",arr[i]);
}

Output

3 2 1 5 4

Another way to code the same algorithm in Python

# Function to reverseArray array in groups
def reverseArray(arr, n, k):
    i = 0
    
    while(i<n):
    
        left = i
        right = min(i + k - 1, n - 1)

        # Reverse the sub-array
        while (left < right):
            
            arr[left], arr[right] = arr[right], arr[left]
            left+= 1;
            right-=1
        i+= k
    
arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

k = 3
n = len(arr)
reverseArray(arr, n, k)

for i in range(0, n):
        print(arr[i], end =" ")

Output

3 2 1 5 4

People are also reading:

• Calculate 3X3 Matrix multiplication in Python and C++
• WAP to swap two numbers
• Convert temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice-versa
• Check whether a given character is an alphabet, digit or any special character
• Calculator to perform Arithmetic Operations using Switch Case
• Perfect Number in C
• WAP to find the largest number amongst the numbers entered by the user
• Calculate the average marks of 5 subjects
• WAP to find the greatest number among the three numbers