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Left Rotation

  • limpingandroid + 1 comment

    I saw this was different than the other problems. I put it in the bottom of main, using n, d and a.

    Are you using C? There appears to be a bug in the original code in their loop that builds a. This is my fix to their problem:

    // bug in original code - only check endptr if we need to do another loop
//      if (a_item_endptr == a_item_str || *a_item_endptr != '\0') { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
if (a_item_endptr == a_item_str) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

if (i < (n-1))
{
    if (*a_item_endptr != '\0') { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
}
*(a + i) = a_item;
    • limpingandroid + 0 comments

      And here is my solution in C, avoiding any actual rotation and the time and possibly memory hit that would incur:

      for (int j = 0; j < n; j++)
{
    if (j+d < n)
        printf ("%d ",*(a+j+d));
    else
        printf ("%d ",*(a+j-(n-d)));
}
printf("\n");