LeetCode 557, Easy. Topics: Two Pointers, String. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 14 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given a string s, reverse the order of characters in each word within a sentence while still preserving whitespace and initial word order.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 10^4
s contains printable ASCII characters.
s does not contain any leading or trailing spaces.
- There is at least one word in
s.
- All the words in
s are separated by a single space.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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