QuickDualPivot.java


Below is the syntax highlighted version of QuickDualPivot.java from §2.3 Quicksort.


/******************************************************************************
 *  Compilation:  javac QuickDualPivot.java
 *  Execution:    java QuickDualPivot < input.txt
 *  Dependencies: StdOut.java StdIn.java
 *  Data files:   https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/23quicksort/tiny.txt
 *                https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/23quicksort/words3.txt
 *
 *  Sorts a sequence of strings from standard input using dual-pivot
 *  quicksort.
 *
 *  [Warning: not thoroughly tested.]
 *
 *  % more tiny.txt
 *  S O R T E X A M P L E
 *
 *  % java QuickDualPivot < tiny.txt
 *  A E E L M O P R S T X                 [ one string per line ]
 *
 *  % more words3.txt
 *  bed bug dad yes zoo ... all bad yet
 *
 *  % java QuickDualPivot < words3.txt
 *  all bad bed bug dad ... yes yet zoo    [ one string per line ]
 *
 ******************************************************************************/

public class QuickDualPivot {

    // quicksort the array a[] using dual-pivot quicksort
    public static void sort(Comparable[] a) {
        StdRandom.shuffle(a);
        sort(a, 0, a.length - 1);
        assert isSorted(a);
    }

    // quicksort the subarray a[lo .. hi] using dual-pivot quicksort
    private static void sort(Comparable[] a, int lo, int hi) {
        if (hi <= lo) return;

        // make sure a[lo] <= a[hi]
        if (less(a[hi], a[lo])) exch(a, lo, hi);

        int lt = lo + 1, gt = hi - 1;
        int i = lo + 1;
        while (i <= gt) {
            if       (less(a[i], a[lo])) exch(a, lt++, i++);
            else if  (less(a[hi], a[i])) exch(a, i, gt--);
            else                         i++;
        }
        exch(a, lo, --lt);
        exch(a, hi, ++gt);

        // recursively sort three subarrays
        sort(a, lo, lt-1);
        if (less(a[lt], a[gt])) sort(a, lt+1, gt-1);
        sort(a, gt+1, hi);

        assert isSorted(a, lo, hi);
    }



   /***************************************************************************
    *  Helper sorting functions.
    ***************************************************************************/

    // is v < w ?
    private static boolean less(Comparable v, Comparable w) {
        return v.compareTo(w) < 0;
    }

    // exchange a[i] and a[j]
    private static void exch(Object[] a, int i, int j) {
        Object swap = a[i];
        a[i] = a[j];
        a[j] = swap;
    }

   /***************************************************************************
    *  Check if array is sorted - useful for debugging.
    ***************************************************************************/
    private static boolean isSorted(Comparable[] a) {
        return isSorted(a, 0, a.length - 1);
    }

    private static boolean isSorted(Comparable[] a, int lo, int hi) {
        for (int i = lo + 1; i <= hi; i++)
            if (less(a[i], a[i-1])) return false;
        return true;
    }



    // print array to standard output
    private static void show(Comparable[] a) {
        for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
            StdOut.println(a[i]);
        }
    }

    // Read strings from standard input, sort them, and print.
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] a = StdIn.readAllStrings();
        QuickDualPivot.sort(a);
        show(a);
    }

}


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