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Reverse digits of a signed integer - Leet Code Solution

// TL;DR

Pop digits with modulo 10, push onto result with multiply by 10. Check for 32-bit integer overflow before each push. Handle negative sign separately.

Reverse digits of a signed integer - Leet Code Solution

Problem Statement

Given a signed integer, reverse digits of an integer.

Example 1:
	Input: 123
	Output: 321

Example 2:
	Input: -123
	Output: -321

Example 3:
	Input: 120
	Output: 21

Return 0 for Integer overflow

Algorithm

The algorithm should be simple. You fetch the last digit. For next round, you need to move this to next digit place, and add next last digit.

  • Keep a flag indicating if the number is negative. Just to negate the result while returning And, make the number positive if it is negative
  • You need to get last digit from number, and multiply last result by 10 to move it to next place.
s = s*10 + remainder;
  • You need to take care of the integer overflow.

  • We will do two calculations

    • Multiply last remainder result by 10
    • Add current remainder with above multiplication result
  • Overflow cases: Note, max limit for 64-bit integer: 2^(64-1) - 1 = 2147483647

    • case 1: Multiplication is itself overflowed: Operation we will do: s10, we can check if s10 > Integer.MAX_VALUE OR, s > Integer.MAX_VALUE/10

    • case 2: if s*10 is equal to Integer.MAX_VALUE, Which means the number will be 214748364 multiply it with 10 will give: 21474836470 So, we need to check the remainder (which is to be added), if it is greater than 7, it is an overflow.

Code

public class Q7_ReverseInteger {
	
	public int reverse(int x) {
		boolean neg = false;
		if (x < 0) {
			//negative number
			neg = true;
			x = -x;
		}
		int s = 0;
		while (x > 0) {
			int rem = x%10;
			
			if (s > Integer.MAX_VALUE/10 || (s == Integer.MAX_VALUE/10 && rem > 7)) {
				return 0;
			}
			
			s = s*10 + rem;
			
			x = x/10;
		}
		
		if (neg) {
			return -s;
		}
		return s;
	}
}

Complexity

It is equal to the number of digits of the number. O(l)

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