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 C++ solution:

#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

string revwords(string in) {
    string rev;
    int wordlen = 0;
    for (int i = in.length(); i >= 0; --i) {
        if (i == 0 || iswspace(in[i-1])) {
            if (wordlen) {
                for (int j = i; wordlen--; )
                    rev.push_back(in[j++]);
                wordlen = 0;
            }
            if (i > 0)
                rev.push_back(in[i-1]);
        }
        else
            ++wordlen;
    }
    return rev;
}

int main() {
    cout << revwords("this is a sentence") << "." << endl;
    cout << revwords("  a sentence   with extra    spaces   ") << "." << endl;
    return 0;
}