How to merge two sorted arrays into a sorted array? [closed]

Answer 1

This problem is related to the mergesort algorithm, in which two sorted sub-arrays are combined into a single sorted sub-array. The CLRS book gives an example of the algorithm and cleans up the need for checking if the end has been reached by adding a sentinel value (something that compares and "greater than any other value") to the end of each array.

I wrote this in Python, but it should translate nicely to Java too:

def func(a, b):
    class sentinel(object):
        def __lt__(*_):
            return False

    ax, bx, c = a[:] + [sentinel()], b[:] + [sentinel()], []
    i, j = 0, 0

    for k in range(len(a) + len(b)):
        if ax[i] < bx[j]:
            c.append(ax[i])
            i += 1
        else:
            c.append(bx[j])
            j += 1

    return c

Answer 2

var arrCombo = function(arr1, arr2){
  return arr1.concat(arr2).sort(function(x, y) {
    return x - y;
  });
};

Answer 3

public static int[] mergeSorted(int[] left, int[] right) {
    System.out.println("merging " + Arrays.toString(left) + " and " + Arrays.toString(right));
    int[] merged = new int[left.length + right.length];
    int nextIndexLeft = 0;
    int nextIndexRight = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < merged.length; i++) {
        if (nextIndexLeft >= left.length) {
            System.arraycopy(right, nextIndexRight, merged, i, right.length - nextIndexRight);
            break;
        }
        if (nextIndexRight >= right.length) {
            System.arraycopy(left, nextIndexLeft, merged, i, left.length - nextIndexLeft);
            break;
        }
        if (left[nextIndexLeft] <= right[nextIndexRight]) {
            merged[i] = left[nextIndexLeft];
            nextIndexLeft++;
            continue;
        }
        if (left[nextIndexLeft] > right[nextIndexRight]) {
            merged[i] = right[nextIndexRight];
            nextIndexRight++;
            continue;
        }
    }
    System.out.println("merged : " + Arrays.toString(merged));
    return merged;
}

Just a small different from the original solution

Answer 4

To marge two sorted array in O(m+n) time complexity use below approach with one loop only. m and n is length of first array and second array.

public class MargeSortedArray {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[] array = new int[]{1,3,4,7};
        int[] array2 = new int[]{2,5,6,8,12,45};
        int[] newarry = margeToSortedArray(array, array2);
        //newarray is marged array
    }

    // marge two sorted array with o(a+n) time complexity
    public static int[] margeToSortedArray(int[] array, int[] array2) {
        int newarrlen = array.length+array2.length;
        int[] newarr = new int[newarrlen];

        int pos1=0,pos2=0;
        int len1=array.length, len2=array2.length;

        for(int i =0;i<newarrlen;i++) {     
            if(pos1>=len1) {
                newarr[i]=array2[pos2];
                pos2++;
                continue;
            }
            if(pos2>=len2) {
                newarr[i]=array[pos1];
                pos1++;
                continue;
            }

            if(array[pos1]>array2[pos2]) {
                newarr[i]=array2[pos2];
                pos2++;
            } else {
                newarr[i]=array[pos1];
                pos1++;
            }   
        }

        return newarr;
    }

}

Answer 5

It can be done in 4 statements as below

 int a[] = {10, 20, 30};
 int b[]= {9, 14, 11};
 int res[]=new int[a.legth+b.length]; 
 System.arraycopy(a,0, res, 0, a.length); 
 System.arraycopy(b,0,res,a.length, b.length);
 Array.sort(res)

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Answer 6

var arr1 = [2,10,20,30,100];
var arr2 = [2,4,5,6,7,8,9];
var j = 0;
var i =0;
var newArray = [];

for(var x=0;x< (arr1.length + arr2.length);x++){
    if(arr1[i] >= arr2[j]){                //check if element arr2 is equal and less than arr1 element
        newArray.push(arr2[j]);
      j++;
    }else if(arr1[i] < arr2[j]){            //check if element arr1 index value  is less than arr2 element
        newArray.push(arr1[i]);
        i++;
    }
    else if(i == arr1.length || j < arr2.length){    // add remaining arr2 element
        newArray.push(arr2[j]);
        j++
    }else{                                                   // add remaining arr1 element
        newArray.push(arr1[i]); 
        i++
    }

}

console.log(newArray);