Efficiently reverse the order of the words (not characters) in an array of characters

Question

Given an array of characters which forms a sentence of words, give an efficient algorithm to reverse the order of the words (not characters) in it.

Example input and

Answer 1

A solution in C/C++:

void swap(char* str, int i, int j){
    char t = str[i];
    str[i] = str[j];
    str[j] = t;
}

void reverse_string(char* str, int length){
    for(int i=0; i

This should be O(n) in time and O(1) in space.

Edit: Cleaned it up a bit.

The first pass over the string is obviously O(n/2) = O(n). The second pass is O(n + combined length of all words / 2) = O(n + n/2) = O(n), which makes this an O(n) algorithm.