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281. Zigzag Iterator (Medium)

Given two 1d vectors, implement an iterator to return their elements alternately.

Example:

Input:
v1 = [1,2]
v2 = [3,4,5,6] 

Output: [1,3,2,4,5,6]

Explanation: By calling next repeatedly until hasNext returns false, 
             the order of elements returned by next should be: [1,3,2,4,5,6].

Follow up: What if you are given k 1d vectors? How well can your code be extended to such cases?

Clarification for the follow up question:
The "Zigzag" order is not clearly defined and is ambiguous for k > 2 cases. If "Zigzag" does not look right to you, replace "Zigzag" with "Cyclic". For example:

Input:
[1,2,3]
[4,5,6,7]
[8,9]

Output: [1,4,8,2,5,9,3,6,7].

Companies:
Google

Related Topics:
Design

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Solution 1.

// OJ: https://leetcode.com/problems/zigzag-iterator/
// Author: github.com/lzl124631x
// Time:
//   ZigzagIterator: O(K)
//   next: O(1)
//   hasNext: O(1)
// Space: O(K) where K is the number of input vectors
class ZigzagIterator {
private:
    queue<pair<vector<int>::iterator, vector<int>::iterator>> q;
public:
    ZigzagIterator(vector<int>& v1, vector<int>& v2) {
        if (v1.begin() != v1.end()) q.push(make_pair(v1.begin(), v1.end()));
        if (v2.begin() != v2.end()) q.push(make_pair(v2.begin(), v2.end()));
    }
    int next() {
        auto p = q.front();
        q.pop();
        int val = *p.first;
        p.first++;
        if (p.first != p.second) q.push(p);
        return val;
    }
    bool hasNext() {
        return q.size();
    }
};