Given a 2D array, the task is to print matrix in anti spiral form:
Examples:
Output: 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Input : arr[][4] = {1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16}; Output : 10 11 7 6 5 9 13 14 15 16 12 8 4 3 2 1 Input :arr[][6] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18}; Output : 11 10 9 8 7 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 6 5 4 3 2 1
The idea is simple, we traverse matrix in spiral form and put all traversed elements in a stack. Finally one by one elements from stack and print them.
Java
// Java Code for Print matrix in antispiral form import java.util.*; class GFG { public static void antiSpiralTraversal( int m, int n, int a[][]) { int i, k = 0 , l = 0 ; /* k - starting row index m - ending row index l - starting column index n - ending column index i - iterator */ Stack<Integer> stk= new Stack<Integer>(); while (k <= m && l <= n) { /* Print the first row from the remaining rows */ for (i = l; i <= n; ++i) stk.push(a[k][i]); k++; /* Print the last column from the remaining columns */ for (i = k; i <= m; ++i) stk.push(a[i][n]); n--; /* Print the last row from the remaining rows */ if ( k <= m) { for (i = n; i >= l; --i) stk.push(a[m][i]); m--; } /* Print the first column from the remaining columns */ if (l <= n) { for (i = m; i >= k; --i) stk.push(a[i][l]); l++; } } while (!stk.empty()) { System.out.print(stk.peek() + " " ); stk.pop(); } } /* Driver program to test above function */ public static void main(String[] args) { int mat[][] = { { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 }, { 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 }, { 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 }, { 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 } }; antiSpiralTraversal(mat.length - 1 , mat[ 0 ].length - 1 , mat); } } // This code is contributed by Arnav Kr. Mandal. |
Output:
12 13 14 9 8 7 6 11 16 17 18 19 20 15 10 5 4 3 2 1
Time Complexity: O(m x n) where m is the number of rows and n is the number of columns in the matrix.
Space Complexity: O(m x n) as we are using a stack to store the elements.
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