151 Reverse Words in a String

Given an input string s, reverse the order of the words.

A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters. The words in s will be separated by at least one space.

Return a string of the words in reverse order concatenated by a single space.

Note that s may contain leading or trailing spaces or multiple spaces between two words. The returned string should only have a single space separating the words. Do not include any extra spaces.

Example 1:

Input: s = "the sky is blue"
Output: "blue is sky the"

Example 2:

Input: s = "  hello world  "
Output: "world hello"
Explanation: Your reversed string should not contain leading or trailing spaces.

Example 3:

Input: s = "a good   example"
Output: "example good a"
Explanation: You need to reduce multiple spaces between two words to a single space in the reversed string.

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 104
• s contains English letters (upper-case and lower-case), digits, and spaces ' '.
• There is at least one word in s.

Follow-up: If the string data type is mutable in your language, can you solve it in-place with O(1) extra space?

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class Solution:
    def reverseWords(self, s: str) -> str:
        return ' '.join(reversed(s.split()))

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func reverseWords(s string) string {
    words := strings.Fields(s)
    n := len(words)
    for i:=0; i < n/2; i++ {
        words[i], words[n-i-1] = words[n-i-1], words[i]
    }
    return strings.Join(words, " ")
}