Easiest way to Rotate a List in c#

Question

Lists say I have a list List {1,2,3,4,5}

Rotate means:

=> {2,3,4,5,1} => {3,4,5,1,2} => {4,5,1,2,3}

Answer 1

Using Linq,

List<int> temp = new List<int>();     

 public int[] solution(int[] array, int range)
    {
        int tempLength = array.Length - range;

        temp = array.Skip(tempLength).ToList();

        temp.AddRange(array.Take(array.Length - range).ToList());

        return temp.ToArray();
    }

Answer 2

How about using modular arithmetic :

public void UsingModularArithmetic()
{ 
  string[] tokens_n = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ');
  int n = Convert.ToInt32(tokens_n[0]);
  int k = Convert.ToInt32(tokens_n[1]);
  int[] a = new int[n];

  for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
  {
    int newLocation = (i + (n - k)) % n;
    a[newLocation] = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
  }

  foreach (int i in a)
    Console.Write("{0} ", i);
}

So basically adding the values to the array when I am reading from console.

Answer 3

My solution for Arrays:

    public static void ArrayRotate(Array data, int index)
    {
        if (index > data.Length)
            throw new ArgumentException("Invalid index");
        else if (index == data.Length || index == 0)
            return;

        var copy = (Array)data.Clone();

        int part1Length = data.Length - index;

        //Part1
        Array.Copy(copy, 0, data, index, part1Length);
        //Part2
        Array.Copy(copy, part1Length, data, 0, index);
    }

Answer 4

public static int[] RightShiftRotation(int[] a, int times) {
  int[] demo = new int[a.Length];
  int d = times,i=0;
  while(d>0) {
    demo[d-1] = a[a.Length - 1 - i]; d = d - 1; i = i + 1;
  }
  for(int j=a.Length-1-times;j>=0;j--) { demo[j + times] = a[j]; }
  return demo;
}

Answer 5

You could implement it as a queue. Dequeue and Enqueue the same value.

**I wasn't sure about performance in converting a List to a Queue, but people upvoted my comment, so I'm posting this as an answer.

Answer 6

It seems like some answerers have treated this as a chance to explore data structures. While those answers are informative and useful, they are not very Linq'ish.

The Linq'ish approach is: You get an extension method which returns a lazy IEnumerable that knows how to build what you want. This method doesn't modify the source and should only allocate a copy of the source if necessary.

public static IEnumerable<IEnumerable<T>> Rotate<T>(this List<T> source)
{
  for(int i = 0; i < source.Count; i++)
  {
    yield return source.TakeFrom(i).Concat(source.TakeUntil(i));
  }
}

  //similar to list.Skip(i-1), but using list's indexer access to reduce iterations
public static IEnumerable<T> TakeFrom<T>(this List<T> source, int index)
{
  for(int i = index; i < source.Count; i++)
  {
    yield return source[i];
  }
}

  //similar to list.Take(i), but using list's indexer access to reduce iterations    
public static IEnumerable<T> TakeUntil<T>(this List<T> source, int index)
{
  for(int i = 0; i < index; i++)
  {
    yield return source[i];
  }
}

Used as:

List<int> myList = new List<int>(){1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
foreach(IEnumerable<int> rotation in myList.Rotate())
{
  //do something with that rotation
}