interleaving positive and negative numbers


Interleaving Positive and Negative Numbers

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public void (int[] A) {

int n = A.length;
int positive = 0;
int begin = 0, end = n - 1;
for (int i : A)
if (i > 0)
positive += 1;
while (begin <= end) {
while (begin <= end && A[begin] < 0)
++begin;
while (begin <= end && A[end] > 0)
--end;
if (begin <= end)
swap(A, begin, end);
}

int negative = n - positive;
begin = 1; end = n - 2;
if (negative > positive) {
swap(A, 1, n - 1);
begin += 2;
end = n - 3;
} else if (negative < positive) {
swap(A, 0, n - 2);
begin = 2;
end = n - 4;
}
while (begin + 1 <= end) {
swap(A, begin, end);
begin += 2;
end -= 2;
}
}

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