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You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, sorted in non-decreasing order, and two integers m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2 respectively.

Merge nums1 and nums2 into a single array sorted in non-decreasing order.

The final sorted array should not be returned by the function, but instead be stored inside the array nums1. To accommodate this, nums1 has a length of m + n, where the first m elements denote the elements that should be merged, and the last n elements are set to 0 and should be ignored. nums2 has a length of n.

class Solution {
    public void merge(int[] nums1, int m, int[] nums2, int n) {
        int i = m - 1;
        int j = n - 1;
        int k = m + n - 1;
        
        while (j >= 0) {
            if (i >= 0 && nums1[i] > nums2[j]) {
                nums1[k--] = nums1[i--];
            } else {
                nums1[k--] = nums2[j--];
            }
        }
    }
}

Posted by Jamie Meyer 25 days ago