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283. Move Zeroes

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Description

Given an integer array nums, move all 0's to the end of it while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements.

Note that you must do this in-place without making a copy of the array.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [0,1,0,3,12]
Output: [1,3,12,0,0]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0]
Output: [0]

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 104
  • -231 <= nums[i] <= 231 - 1

 

Follow up: Could you minimize the total number of operations done?

Solution

move-zeroes.py
class Solution:
    def moveZeroes(self, nums: List[int]) -> None:
        """
        Do not return anything, modify nums in-place instead.
        """
        zeroPos = 0

        for i, x in enumerate(nums):
            if x != 0:
                nums[i], nums[zeroPos] = nums[zeroPos], nums[i]
                zeroPos += 1