[lintcode] problem 508 – wiggle sort

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

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// 推导出此时 nums[i] >= nums[i - 2],因此交换之后,不会让 nums[i] 和 nums[i - 2] 的大小关系出现变化。
public void (int[] nums) {
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length - 1 ; i++) {
if ((i % 2 == 0 && nums[i] > nums[i + 1]) || (i % 2 != 0 && nums[i] < nums[i + 1]))
swap(nums, i, i + 1);
}
}

private void swap(int[] nums, int i, int j) {
int temp = nums[i];
nums[i] = nums[j];
nums[j] = temp;
}