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Sort Colors

Problem statement

Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue.

We will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue, respectively.

You must solve this problem without using the library's sort function.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,0,2,1,1,0]Output: [0,0,1,1,2,2]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,0,1]Output: [0,1,2]

Constraints:

  • n == nums.length
  • 1 <= n <= 300
  • nums[i] is either 0, 1, or 2.

Follow up: Could you come up with a one-pass algorithm using only constant extra space?

My solution

/**
* @param {number[]} nums
* @return {void} Do not return anything, modify nums in-place instead.
*/
var sortColors = function(nums) {
let i = 0;
let len = nums.length - 1;
let j = 0;

function swap(arr, i, j) {
[arr[j], arr[i]] = [arr[i], arr[j]]
}

while (i <= len) {
if (nums[i] === 0) {
swap(nums, i, j);
i++;
j++
} else if (nums[i] === 2) {
swap(nums, i, len);
len--;
} else {
i++;
}
}
};