Problem: Wiggle Sort

Posted by Marcy on February 18, 2015

Question

Given an unsorted array nums, reorder it in-place such that

nums[0] <= nums[1] >= nums[2] <= nums[3]....

Example:

Input: nums = [3,5,2,1,6,4]
Output: One possible answer is [3,5,1,6,2,4]

Code

class Solution {
    public void wiggleSort(int[] nums) {
        for(int i=1; i<nums.length; i++) {
            if(i%2 == 1 && nums[i] < nums[i-1]) {
                swap(nums, i, i-1);
            }
            else if(i%2 == 0 && nums[i] > nums[i-1]) {
                swap(nums, i, i-1);
            }
        }
    }

    private void swap(int[] nums, int i1, int i2) {
        int t = nums[i1];
        nums[i1] = nums[i2];
        nums[i2] = t;
    }
}

Performance

O(n)