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Reverse String

Created: March 12, 2020 by [lek-tin]

Last updated: March 12, 2020

Write a function that reverses a string. The input string is given as an array of characters char[].

Do not allocate extra space for another array, you must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.

You may assume all the characters consist of printable ascii characters.

Example 1

Input: ["h","e","l","l","o"]
Output: ["o","l","l","e","h"]

Example 2

Input: ["H","a","n","n","a","h"]
Output: ["h","a","n","n","a","H"]

Solution

class Solution:
    def reverseString(self, s: List[str]) -> None:
        """
        Do not return anything, modify s in-place instead.
        """
        left, right = 0, len(s)-1

        while left < right:
            temp = s[right]
            s[right] = s[left]
            s[left] = temp
            left += 1
            right -= 1