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75. Sort Colors

Medium

Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue.

We will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue, respectively.

You must solve this problem without using the library’s sort function.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,0,2,1,1,0]

Output: [0,0,1,1,2,2]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,0,1]

Output: [0,1,2]

Example 3:

Input: nums = [0]

Output: [0]

Example 4:

Input: nums = [1]

Output: [1]

Constraints:

Follow up: Could you come up with a one-pass algorithm using only constant extra space?

Solution

const sortColors = (nums: number[]) => {
    let i = 0
    let num2s = 0
    while (i < nums.length) {
        const num = nums.shift()
        if (num === 0) nums.splice(nums.length - i, 0, 0)
        else if (num === 1) nums.splice(nums.length - num2s, 0, 1)
        else {
            num2s++
            nums.push(2)
        }
        i++
    }
}

export { sortColors }