Reverse Words in a String

Reverse Words in a String

Given an input string, reverse the string word by word.

For example,
Given s = "the sky is blue",
return "blue is sky the".

Update (2015-02-12):
For C programmers: Try to solve it in-place in O(1) space.

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Clarification:

• What constitutes a word?
  A sequence of non-space characters constitutes a word.
• Could the input string contain leading or trailing spaces?
  Yes. However, your reversed string should not contain leading or trailing spaces.
• How about multiple spaces between two words?
  Reduce them to a single space in the reversed string.

Solution

public class Solution {
    public String reverseWords(String s) {
        if (s == null)
            return null;
            
        if (s.length() == 0)
            return "";
        
        s = s.trim();
        String[] str = s.split("\\s+");
        
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        
        for (int i = str.length - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
            sb.append(str[i]);
            if (i != 0)
                sb.append(" ");
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}