Reverse words in a given string | Set 2

Difficulty Level : Medium
Last Updated : 09 Jul, 2021

Given string str, the task is to reverse the string by considering each word of the string, str as a single unit.

Examples:

Input: str = “geeks quiz practice code”
Output: code practice quiz geeks
Explanation:
The words in the given string are [“geeks”, “quiz”, “practice”, “code”].
Therefore, after reversing the order of the words, the required output is“code practice quiz geeks”.
Input: str = “getting good at coding needs a lot of practice”
Output: practice of lot a needs coding at good getting

In-place Reversal Approach: Refer to the article Reverse words in a given string for the in-place reversal of words followed by a reversal of the entire string.
Time Complexity: O(N)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)

Stack-based Approach: In this article, the approach to solving the problem using Stack is going to be discussed. The idea here is to push all the words of str into the Stack and then print all the elements of the Stack. Follow the steps below to solve the problem:

Create a Stack to store each word of the string str.
Iterate over string str, and separate each word of str by a space delimiter.
Push all the words of str into the stack.
Print all the elements of the stack one by one.

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C++

// C++ Program to implement
// the above approach
 
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to reverse the words
// of a given string
void printRev(string str)
{
    // Stack to store each
    // word of the string
    stack<string> st;
 
    // Store the whole string
    // in string stream
    stringstream ss(str);
 
    string temp;
    while (getline(ss, temp, ' ')) {
 
        // Push each word of the
        // string into the stack
        st.push(temp);
    }
 
    // Print the string in reverse
    // order of the words
    while (!st.empty()) {
        cout << st.top() << " ";
        st.pop();
    }
}
 
// Driver Code
int main()
{
    string str;
    str = "geeks quiz practice code";
 
    printRev(str);
    return 0;
}

Java

// Java Program to implement
// the above approach
import java.util.*;
class GFG{
 
    // Function to reverse the words
    // of a given String
    static void printRev(String str)
    {
        // Stack to store each
        // word of the String
        Stack<String> st = new Stack<String>();
 
        // Store the whole String
        // in String stream
        String[] ss = str.split(" ");
 
        for (String temp : ss)
        {
 
            // Push each word of the
            // String into the stack
            st.add(temp);
        }
 
        // Print the String in reverse
        // order of the words
        while (!st.isEmpty())
        {
            System.out.print(st.peek() + " ");
            st.pop();
        }
    }
 
    // Driver Code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String str;
        str = "geeks quiz practice code";
        printRev(str);
    }
}
 
// This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji

Python3

# Python3 program to implement
# the above approach
 
# Function to reverse the words
# of a given string
def printRev(strr):
     
    # Stack to store each
    # word of the string
    strr = strr.split(" ")
    st = []
 
    # Store the whole string
    # in stream
    for i in strr:
 
        # Push each word of the
        # into the stack
        st.append(i)
 
    # Print the in reverse
    # order of the words
    while len(st) > 0:
        print(st[-1], end = " ")
        del st[-1]
 
# Driver Code
if __name__ == '__main__':
     
    strr = "geeks quiz practice code"
     
    printRev(strr)
 
# This code is contributed by mohit kumar 29

C#

// C# program to implement
// the above approach
using System;
using System.Collections;
 
class GFG{
 
// Function to reverse the words
// of a given String
static void printRev(string str)
{
     
    // Stack to store each
    // word of the String
    Stack st = new Stack();
 
    String[] sepearator = {" "};
     
    // Store the whole String
    // in String stream
    string[] ss = str.Split(sepearator,
                            int.MaxValue,
             StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
 
    foreach(string temp in ss)
    {
 
        // Push each word of the
        // String into the stack
        st.Push(temp);
    }
 
    // Print the String in reverse
    // order of the words
    while (st.Count > 0)
    {
        Console.Write(st.Peek() + " ");
        st.Pop();
    }
}
 
// Driver Code
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string str;
    str = "geeks quiz practice code";
     
    printRev(str);
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by rutvik_56

Javascript

<script>
// Javascript Program to implement
// the above approach
 
// Function to reverse the words
// of a given String
function printRev(str)
{
        // Stack to store each
        // word of the String
        let st = [];
  
        // Store the whole String
        // in String stream
        let ss = str.split(" ");
  
        for (let temp=0;temp< ss.length;temp++)
        {
  
            // Push each word of the
            // String into the stack
            st.push(ss[temp]);
        }
  
        // Print the String in reverse
        // order of the words
        while (st.length!=0)
        {
            document.write(st.pop() + " ");
             
        }
}
 
// Driver Code
let str;
str = "geeks quiz practice code";
printRev(str);
 
 
// This code is contributed by unknown2108
</script>

Output

code practice quiz geeks

Time Complexity: O(N), where N denotes the length of the string.
Auxiliary Space: O(N)

Method #2: Using built-in python functions

As all the words in a sentence are separated by spaces.
We have to split the sentence by spaces using split().
We split all the words by spaces and store them in a list.
Reverse this list and print it.

Python3

# Python3 program to implement
# the above approach
 
# Function to reverse the words
# of a given string
 
 
def printRev(string):
    # split by space and converting
    # string to list
    lis = list(string.split())
    # reverse the list
    lis.reverse()
    # printing the list
    print(*lis)
 
 
# Driver Code
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    strr = "geeks quiz practice code"
 
    printRev(strr)
 
# This code is contributed by vikkycirus

Javascript

<script>
 
// javascript program to implement
// the above approach
 
// Function to reverse the words
// of a given string
 
 
function printRev(string){
    // split by space and converting
    // string to list
    var lis = string.split(' ');
    console.log(lis);
    // reverse the list
    lis.reverse();
    console.log(lis);   
    // printing the list
    document.write(lis.join(' '));
}   
 
 
// Driver Code
 
    var strr = "geeks quiz practice code"
 
    printRev(strr)
 
</script>

Output

code practice quiz geeks

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