Two Pointers
Move Zeroes
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DESCRIPTION (inspired by Leetcode.com)
Given an integer array nums, write a function to rearrange the array by moving all zeros to the end while keeping the order of non-zero elements unchanged. Perform this operation in-place without creating a copy of the array.
Input:
nums = [2,0,4,0,9]
Output:
[2,4,9,0,0]
Explanation
We can solve this problem by keeping a pointer i that iterates through the array and another pointer nextNonZero that points to the position where the next non-zero element should be placed. We can then swap the elements at i and nextNonZero if the element at i is non-zero. This way, we can maintain the relative order of the non-zero elements while moving all the zeroes to the end of the array.
Solution
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Try these examples:
def moveZeroes(nums):nextNonZero = 0for i in range(len(nums)):if nums[i] != 0:nums[nextNonZero], nums[i] = nums[i], nums[nextNonZero]nextNonZero += 1
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