Zigzag Iterator
Given two 1d vectors, implement an iterator to return their elements alternately.
For example, given two 1d vectors:
v1 = [1, 2]
v2 = [3, 4, 5, 6]
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 given k 1d vectors? How well can your code be extended to such cases?
The "Zigzag" order is not clearly defined and is ambiguous for k > 2 cases. If "Zigzag" does not look right to you, replace "Zigzag" with "Cyclic". For example, given the following input:
[1,2,3]
[4,5,6,7]
[8,9]
It should return [1,4,8,2,5,9,3,6,7].
class ZigzagIterator(object):
def __init__(self, v1, v2):
"""
Initialize your data structure here.
:type v1: List[int]
:type v2: List[int]
"""
self.v = [v1,v2]
self.start = 0
self.cur = 0
self.len = len(v1) + len(v2)
def next(self):
"""
:rtype: int
"""
while True:
if self.v[self.cur%2]:
temp = self.v[self.cur % 2].pop(0)
self.start += 1
self.cur += 1
return temp
else:
self.cur += 1
def hasNext(self):
"""
:rtype: bool
"""
if self.start < self.len:
return True
else:
return False
public class ZigzagIterator {
LinkedList<Iterator> list;
public ZigzagIterator(List<Integer> v1, List<Integer> v2) {
list = new LinkedList<Iterator>();
if(!v1.isEmpty()) list.add(v1.iterator());
if(!v2.isEmpty()) list.add(v2.iterator());
}
public int next() {
Iterator poll = list.remove();
int result = (Integer)poll.next();
if(poll.hasNext()) list.add(poll);
return result;
}
public boolean hasNext() {
return !list.isEmpty();
}
}