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75. Sort Colors

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Problem Statement

75. Sort Colors

Medium


Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue.

We will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue, respectively.

You must solve this problem without using the library's sort function.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,0,2,1,1,0]
Output: [0,0,1,1,2,2]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,0,1]
Output: [0,1,2]

 

Constraints:

 

Follow up: Could you come up with a one-pass algorithm using only constant extra space?

C++

Source file
class Solution {
public:
    void sortColors(vector<int>& nums) {
        int lt=0, rt=nums.size()-1, mid=lt;
        while(mid<=rt){
            switch(nums[mid]){
                case 0: 
                    swap(nums[lt++],nums[mid++]);
                    break;
                case 1: 
                    mid++;
                    break;
                case 2:
                    swap(nums[mid],nums[rt--]);
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
};