Given two 1d vectors, implement an iterator to return their elements alternately.
Example:
Input:
v1 = [1,2]
v2 = [3,4,5,6]
Output:
[1,3,2,4,5,6]
Explanation:
By calling
next
repeatedly until
hasNext
returns
false
,
the order of elements returned by
next
should be:
[1,3,2,4,5,6]
.
Follow up: What if you are givenk
1d vectors? How well can your code be extended to such cases?
Clarificationfor the follow up question:
The "Zigzag" order is not clearly defined and is ambiguous fork > 2
cases. If "Zigzag" does not look right to you, replace "Zigzag" with "Cyclic". For example:
Input:
[1,2,3]
[4,5,6,7]
[8,9]
Output:
[1,4,8,2,5,9,3,6,7]
.
public class ZigzagIterator {
List<Integer> v1;
List<Integer> v2;
int index1;
int index2;
boolean useV2;
public ZigzagIterator(List<Integer> v1, List<Integer> v2) {
this.v1 = v1;
this.v2 = v2;
this.index1 = 0;
this.index2 = 0;
useV2 = false;
}
public int next() {
if (!useV2 && index1 < v1.size()){
useV2 = true;
return v1.get(index1++);
}
if (useV2 && index2 < v2.size()){
useV2 = false;
return v2.get(index2++);
}
return index1 < v1.size() ? v1.get(index1++) : v2.get(index2++);
}
public boolean hasNext() {
return index1 < v1.size() || index2 < v2.size();
}
}
/**
* Your ZigzagIterator object will be instantiated and called as such:
* ZigzagIterator i = new ZigzagIterator(v1, v2);
* while (i.hasNext()) v[f()] = i.next();
*/