How do you reverse a string in place in C or C++?

Question

How do you reverse a string in C or C++ without requiring a separate buffer to hold the reversed string?

Answer 1

Another C++ way (though I would probably use std::reverse() myself :) as being more expressive and faster)

str = std::string(str.rbegin(), str.rend());

The C way (more or less :) ) and please, be careful about XOR trick for swapping, compilers sometimes cannot optimize that.

In such case it is usually much slower.

char* reverse(char* s)
{
    char* beg = s, *end = s, tmp;
    while (*end) end++;
    while (end-- > beg)
    { 
        tmp  = *beg; 
        *beg++ = *end;  
        *end =  tmp;
    }
    return s;
} // fixed: check history for details, as those are interesting ones