Everyday a Leetcode Problem - 88. Merge Sorted Array

This summer I will open the series to practice a Leetcode problem everyday to hone my coding skills! Hope to receive your feedback.

Today problem link: 88. Merge Sorted Array

Ideas

• What we have: 2 vectors in C++, that means we can access to std C++ functions, at least vector one.

• What we have to notice: We have m and n as lengths of 2 vectors needed to be merge. So m and n maybe won’t be the same as vectors’ actual lengths.

• Step by step to solve the problem:

  • Visit std::vector to see if there is any functions we can use.
  • Realize that we can use insert() and resize().
  • Use resize() to make 2 vectors have m, n lengths.
  • Use insert() to merge nums2 into nums1.
  • Use sort() to sort the vector in non-decreasing order.

Functions explanation

resize()

void resize( size_type count );

So it’s a void function with count is the value we need to resize. Simply nums1.resize(m) will do the trick.

insert()

Here I am the bad guy because I didn’t follow exactly like the format of the function.

template< class InputIt >
iterator insert( const_iterator pos, InputIt first, InputIt last );

We have some ways to use insert(), but in this case we will use this one. I didn’t declare a variable for insert() cause I don’t need that value, we only need to care that after we call it, it will work with the vectors.

sort()

I hate learning sorting algorithms and thank God, C++ has std function for sorting.

template <class RandomAccessIterator>  void sort (RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last);

It’s a void function, require last and first iterator of the vector. vector.begin() and vector.end() are all you need.

Code

C++ always my love I don’t use other languages except someone pointing guns at my head.

class Solution {
public:
    void merge(vector<int>& nums1, int m, vector<int>& nums2, int n) {
        nums1.resize(m);
        nums2.resize(n);
        nums1.insert(nums1.end(), nums2.begin(),nums2.end());
        sort(nums1.begin(), nums1.end());
    }
};

The solution has runtime 0ms and memory usage 11mb, beats 100% runtime and 71.62% memory usage.

That’s all for the day. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!