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Rearrange array in alternating positive & negative items with O(1) extra space | Set 1 - GeeksforGeeks

Sandeep Joshi
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Rearrange array in alternating positive & negative items with O(1) extra space | Set 1

  • Difficulty Level : Medium
  • Last Updated : 29 May, 2021

Given an array of positive and negative numbers, arrange them in an alternate fashion such that every positive number is followed by negative and vice-versa maintaining the order of appearance. 
Number of positive and negative numbers need not be equal. If there are more positive numbers they appear at the end of the array. If there are more negative numbers, they too appear in the end of the array.

Examples : 

Input:  arr[] = {1, 2, 3, -4, -1, 4}Output: arr[] = {-4, 1, -1, 2, 3, 4}Input:  arr[] = {-5, -2, 5, 2, 4, 7, 1, 8, 0, -8}output: arr[] = {-5, 5, -2, 2, -8, 4, 7, 1, 8, 0}

This question has been asked at many places (See this and this)

Naive Approach : 
The above problem can be easily solved if O(n) extra space is allowed. It becomes interesting due to the limitations that O(1) extra space and order of appearances. 
The idea is to process array from left to right. While processing, find the first out of place element in the remaining unprocessed array. An element is out of place if it is negative and at odd index, or it is positive and at even index. Once we find an out of place element, we find the first element after it with opposite sign. We right rotate the subarray between these two elements (including these two).

Following is the implementation of above idea.  

 

 

 

  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • C#
  • PHP

 

 

 

/*  C++ program to rearrange

   positive and negative integers

   in alternate fashion while keeping

   the order of positive and negative numbers. */

#include <assert.h>

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

 

// Utility function to right rotate all elements between

// [outofplace, cur]

void rightrotate(int arr[], int n, int outofplace, int cur)

{

    char tmp = arr[cur];

    for (int i = cur; i > outofplace; i--)

        arr[i] = arr[i - 1];

    arr[outofplace] = tmp;

}

 

void rearrange(int arr[], int n)

{

    int outofplace = -1;

 

    for (int index = 0; index < n; index++)

    {

        if (outofplace >= 0)

        {

            // find the item which must be moved into the

            // out-of-place entry if out-of-place entry is

            // positive and current entry is negative OR if

            // out-of-place entry is negative and current

            // entry is negative then right rotate

            //

            // [...-3, -4, -5, 6...] -->   [...6, -3, -4,

            // -5...]

            //      ^                          ^

            //      |                          |

            //     outofplace      -->      outofplace

            //

            if (((arr[index] >= 0) && (arr[outofplace] < 0))

                || ((arr[index] < 0)

                    && (arr[outofplace] >= 0)))

            {

                rightrotate(arr, n, outofplace, index);

 

                // the new out-of-place entry is now 2 steps

                // ahead

                if (index - outofplace >= 2)

                    outofplace = outofplace + 2;

                else

                    outofplace = -1;

            }

        }

 

        // if no entry has been flagged out-of-place

        if (outofplace == -1) {

            // check if current entry is out-of-place

            if (((arr[index] >= 0) && (!(index & 0x01)))

                || ((arr[index] < 0) && (index & 0x01))) {

                outofplace = index;

            }

        }

    }

}

 

// A utility function to print an array 'arr[]' of size 'n'

void printArray(int arr[], int n)

{

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)

        cout << arr[i] << " ";

    cout << endl;

}

 

// Driver code

int main()

{

     

    int arr[] = { -5, -2, 5, 2,

                 4, 7, 1, 8, 0, -8 };

    int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]);

 

    cout << "Given array is \n";

    printArray(arr, n);

 

    rearrange(arr, n);

 

    cout << "Rearranged array is \n";

    printArray(arr, n);

 

    return 0;

}

Output

Given array is-5 -2 5 2 4 7 1 8 0 -8Rearranged array is-5 5 -2 2 -8 4 7 1 8 0 

Time Complexity : O(N^2)

Space Complexity : O(1)

Efficient Approach : 

We first sort the array in non-increasing order.Then we will count the number of poitive and negative integers. Then we will swap the one negative and one positive

number till we reach our condition. This will rearrange the array elements because we are sorting the array and accessing the element from left to right according to our need.

  • Java
  • Python3

 

 

 

// Below is the implementation of the above approach

import java.io.*;

import java.lang.*;

import java.util.*;

public class Main {

   

    // function which works in the condition when number of

    // negative numbers are lesser or equal than positive

    // numbers

    static void fill1(int a[], int neg, int pos)

    {

        if (neg % 2 == 1) {

            for (int i = 1; i < neg; i += 2) {

                int c = a[i];

                int d = a[i + neg];

                int temp = c;

                a[i] = d;

                a[i + neg] = temp;

            }

        }

        else {

            for (int i = 1; i <= neg; i += 2) {

                int c = a[i];

                int d = a[i + neg - 1];

                int temp = c;

                a[i] = d;

                a[i + neg - 1] = temp;

            }

        }

    }

    // function which works in the condition when number of

    // negative numbers are greater than positive numbers

    static void fill2(int a[], int neg, int pos)

    {

        if (pos % 2 == 1) {

            for (int i = 1; i < pos; i += 2) {

                int c = a[i];

                int d = a[i + pos];

                int temp = c;

                a[i] = d;

                a[i + pos] = temp;

            }

        }

        else {

            for (int i = 1; i <= pos; i += 2) {

                int c = a[i];

                int d = a[i + pos - 1];

                int temp = c;

                a[i] = d;

                a[i + pos - 1] = temp;

            }

        }

    }

    static void reverse(int a[], int n)

    {

        int i, k, t;

        for (i = 0; i < n / 2; i++) {

            t = a[i];

            a[i] = a[n - i - 1];

            a[n - i - 1] = t;

        }

    }

    static void print(int a[], int n)

    {

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)

            System.out.print(a[i] + " ");

        System.out.println();

    }

    public static void main(String[] args)

        throws java.lang.Exception

    {

        // Given array

        int[] arr = { -5, -2, 5, 2, 4, 7, 1, 8, 0, -8 };

        int n = arr.length;

 

        int neg = 0, pos = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {

            if (arr[i] < 0)

                neg++;

            else

                pos++;

        }

        // Sort the array

        Arrays.sort(arr);

 

        if (neg <= pos) {

            fill1(arr, neg, pos);

        }

        else {

            // reverse the array in this condition

            reverse(arr, n);

            fill2(arr, neg, pos);

        }

        print(arr, n);

    }

}

Output

-8 1 -2 0 -5 2 4 5 7 8 

Time Complexity: O(N*logN)

Space Complexity: O(1)

 

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