Sort strings on the basis of their numeric part
Last Updated :
26 Mar, 2024
Given a sentence S of size N where each word is a concatenation of a numeric part followed by a bunch of characters. The task is to arrange the words in increasing order of their numeric part.
Examples:
Input: S = “24-amazing 7-coders 11-are”
Output: coders are amazing
Explanation: order of numeric values are 7, 11, 24.
So they are arranged accordingly
Input: S = “19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket”
Output: I Love cricket
Approach: The approach of the solution is based on the concept of min-heap. Split the strings on the basis of spaces and put them in the heap. At last pop them from the heap and print them in order. That will give the desired solution.
Below is the implementation of the above approach.
C++
// C++ code to implement the approach
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
using namespace std;
// For arranging words on the basis
// of numeric part
// Function to arrange the sentence
string solve(string str)
{
vector<string> arr;
boost::split(arr, str, boost::is_any_of(" "));
priority_queue<pair<int,string>> pq;
for(int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++)
{
string s = arr[i];
string N = "";
int a = 0;
while(s[a] != '-')
{
N += s[a];
a += 1;
}
int num = stoi(N);
string word = arr[i].substr(a + 1);
pq.push(make_pair(num, word));
}
string sb = "";
while (0 < pq.size())
{ sb = pq.top().second + " "+sb;
pq.pop();
}
return sb;
}
// Driver code
int main()
{
string S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket";
string ans = solve(S);
cout<<ans;
}
// This code is contributed by Pushpesh raj
Java
// Java code to implement above approach
import java.util.*;
class GFG {
// For arranging words on the basis
// of numeric part
public static class pair
implements Comparable<pair> {
int num;
String word;
pair(int num, String word)
{
this.num = num;
this.word = word;
}
public int compareTo(pair o)
{
return this.num - o.num;
}
}
// Function to arrange the sentence
public static String solve(String str)
{
String[] arr = str.split(" ");
PriorityQueue<pair> pq
= new PriorityQueue<>();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length;
i++) {
String s = arr[i];
String N = "";
int a = 0;
while (s.charAt(a) != '-') {
N += s.charAt(a);
a++;
}
int num = Integer.parseInt(N);
String word = s.substring(a + 1);
pq.add(new pair(num, word));
}
StringBuilder sb
= new StringBuilder();
while (pq.size() > 0) {
pair p = pq.remove();
sb.append(p.word);
sb.append(" ");
}
sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
return sb.toString();
}
// Driver code
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket";
String ans = solve(S);
System.out.println(ans);
}
}
C#
// C# code to implement above approach
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
class GFG {
// Pair class for arranging words based on numeric part
public class pair : IComparable<pair> {
public int num;
public string word;
public pair(int num, string word)
{
this.num = num;
this.word = word;
}
public int CompareTo(pair other)
{
return this.num - other.num;
}
}
// Function to arrange the sentence
public static string solve(string str)
{
string[] arr = str.Split(" ");
List<pair> pq = new List<pair>();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)
{
string s = arr[i];
string N = "";
int a = 0;
while (s[a] != '-')
{
N += s[a];
a++;
}
int num = Convert.ToInt32(N);
string word = s.Substring(a + 1);
pq.Add(new pair(num, word));
}
pq.Sort();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (pair p in pq)
{
sb.Append(p.word);
sb.Append(" ");
}
sb.Remove(sb.Length - 1, 1);
return sb.ToString();
}
// Driver code
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket";
string ans = solve(S);
Console.WriteLine(ans);
}
}
Javascript
<script>
// JavaScript code for the above approach
// For arranging words on the basis
// of numeric part
// Function to arrange the sentence
function solve(str) {
let arr = str.split(" ");
let pq = []
for (let i = 0; i < arr.length;
i++) {
let s = arr[i];
let N = "";
let a = 0;
while (s.charAt(a) != '-') {
N += s.charAt(a);
a++;
}
let num = parseInt(N);
let word = s.slice(a + 1);
pq.push({ 'first': num, 'second': word });
}
pq.sort(function (a, b) { return a.first - b.first })
let sb = "";
let k = 0;
while (k < pq.length) {
sb += pq[k].second + " ";
k++;
}
return sb
}
// Driver code
let S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket";
let ans = solve(S);
document.write(ans);
// This code is contributed by Potta Lokesh
</script>
Python3
# python3 code for the above approach
# For arranging words on the basis
# of numeric part
# Function to arrange the sentence
def solve(str):
arr = str.split(" ")
pq = []
for i in range(0, len(arr)):
s = arr[i]
N = ""
a = 0
while (s[a] != '-'):
N += s[a]
a += 1
num = int(N)
word = s[a + 1:]
pq.append([num, word])
pq.sort()
sb = ""
k = 0
while (k < len(pq)):
sb += pq[k][1] + " "
k
k += 1
return sb
# Driver code
if __name__ == "__main__":
S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket"
ans = solve(S)
print(ans)
# This code is contributed by rakeshsahni
Time Complexity: O(N log N)
Auxiliary Space: O(N)
Using lambda:
- We split the sentence into words using the split() method, creating a list called words.
- We sort the words list based on the numeric part of each word (before the hyphen -). We achieve this by using a lambda function as the key for the sorted() function. This lambda function extracts the numeric part of each word and converts it to an integer for proper numerical sorting.
- We then join the sorted words by stripping off the numeric parts and returning only the character parts.
- We use a list comprehension to split each word at the hyphen – and only return the second part (the character part).
- Finally, we join these character parts into a single string using the join() method.
Python3
def solve(sentence):
words = sentence.split(" ")
sorted_words = sorted(words, key=lambda x: int(x.split("-")[0]))
return " ".join(word.split("-")[1] for word in sorted_words)
# Given input
S = "19-Love 10-I 2001-cricket"
# Function Call
print(solve(S))
Time Complexity: O(N log N)
Space Complexity: O(N)
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