Left Rotation and Right Rotation of a String

Given a string of size n, write functions to perform following operations on string.

Left (Or anticlockwise) rotate the given string by d elements (where d <= n)
Right (Or clockwise) rotate the given string by d elements (where d <= n).

Examples:

Input : s = "GeeksforGeeks"
        d = 2
Output : Left Rotation  : "eksforGeeksGe" 
         Right Rotation : "ksGeeksforGee"  


Input : s = "qwertyu" 
        d = 2
Output : Left rotation : "ertyuqw"
         Right rotation : "yuqwert"

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A Simple Solution is to use a temporary string to do rotations. For left rotation, first copy last n-d characters, then copy first d characters in order to the temporary string. For right rotation, first copy last d characters, then copy n-d characters.

Can we do both rotations in-place and O(n) time?
The idea is based on reversal algorithm for rotation.

// Left rotate string s by d (Assuming d <= n)
leftRotate(s, d)
  reverse(s, 0, d-1); // Reverse substring s[0..d-1]
  reverse(s, d, n-1); // Reverse substring s[d..n-1]
  reverse(s, 0, n-1); // Reverse whole string.  

// Right rotate string s by d (Assuming d <= n)
rightRotate(s, d)

  // We can also call above reverse steps
  // with d = n-d.
  leftRotate(s, n-d)

Below is the implementation of above steps :

C++

// C program for Left Rotation and Right 
// Rotation of a String 
#include<bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std; 
  
// In-place rotates s towards left by d 
void leftrotate(string &s, int d) 
{ 
    reverse(s.begin(), s.begin()+d); 
    reverse(s.begin()+d, s.end()); 
    reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); 
} 
  
// In-place rotates s towards right by d 
void rightrotate(string &s, int d) 
{ 
   leftrotate(s, s.length()-d); 
} 
  
// Driver code 
int main() 
{ 
    string str1 = "GeeksforGeeks"; 
    leftrotate(str1, 2); 
    cout << str1 << endl; 
  
    string str2 = "GeeksforGeeks"; 
    rightrotate(str2, 2); 
    cout << str2 << endl; 
    return 0; 
} 

Java

// Java program for Left Rotation and Right  
// Rotation of a String  
import java.util.*; 
import java.io.*; 
  
class GFG  
{ 
          
    // function that rotates s towards left by d  
    static String leftrotate(String str, int d) 
    { 
            String ans = str.substring(d) + str.substring(0, d); 
            return ans; 
    } 
  
    // function that rotates s towards right by d  
    static String rightrotate(String str, int d) 
    { 
            return leftrotate(str, str.length() - d); 
    } 
  
    // Driver code 
    public static void main(String args[]) 
    { 
            String str1 = "GeeksforGeeks";  
            System.out.println(leftrotate(str1, 2)); 
  
            String str2 = "GeeksforGeeks";  
            System.out.println(rightrotate(str2, 2));  
    } 
} 
  
// This code is contributed by rachana soma 

Output:

Left rotation:  eksforGeeksGe
Right rotation:  ksGeeksforGee

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