How do I reverse an int array in Java?

To reverse an int array, you swap items up until you reach the midpoint, like this:

for(int i = 0; i < validData.length / 2; i++)
{
    int temp = validData[i];
    validData[i] = validData[validData.length - i - 1];
    validData[validData.length - i - 1] = temp;
}

The way you are doing it, you swap each element twice, so the result is the same as the initial list.

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With Commons.Lang, you could simply use

ArrayUtils.reverse(int[] array)

Most of the time, it's quicker and more bug-safe to stick with easily available libraries already unit-tested and user-tested when they take care of your problem.

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Collections.reverse(Arrays.asList(yourArray));

java.util.Collections.reverse() can reverse java.util.Lists and java.util.Arrays.asList() returns a list that wraps the the specific array you pass to it, therefore yourArray is reversed after the invocation of Collections.reverse().

The cost is just the creation of one List-object and no additional libraries are required.

A similar solution has been presented in the answer of Tarik and their commentors, but I think this answer would be more concise and more easily parsable.

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public class ArrayHandle {
    public static Object[] reverse(Object[] arr) {
        List<Object> list = Arrays.asList(arr);
        Collections.reverse(list);
        return list.toArray();
    }
}

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I think it's a little bit easier to follow the logic of the algorithm if you declare explicit variables to keep track of the indices that you're swapping at each iteration of the loop.

public static void reverse(int[] data) {
    for (int left = 0, right = data.length - 1; left < right; left++, right--) {
        // swap the values at the left and right indices
        int temp = data[left];
        data[left]  = data[right];
        data[right] = temp;
    }
}

I also think it's more readable to do this in a while loop.

public static void reverse(int[] data) {
    int left = 0;
    int right = data.length - 1;

    while( left < right ) {
        // swap the values at the left and right indices
        int temp = data[left];
        data[left] = data[right];
        data[right] = temp;

        // move the left and right index pointers in toward the center
        left++;
        right--;
    }
}

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There are already a lot of answers here, mostly focused on modifying the array in-place. But for the sake of completeness, here is another approach using Java streams to preserve the original array and create a new reversed array:

    int[] a = {8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9};
    int[] b = IntStream.rangeClosed(1, a.length).map(i -> a[a.length-i]).toArray();

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In case of Java 8 we can also use IntStream to reverse the array of integers as:

int[] sample = new int[]{1,2,3,4,5};
int size = sample.length;
int[] reverseSample = IntStream.range(0,size).map(i -> sample[size-i-1])
                      .toArray(); //Output: [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

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With Guava:

Collections.reverse(Ints.asList(array));

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for(int i=validData.length-1; i>=0; i--){
  System.out.println(validData[i]);
 }

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Simple for loop!

for (int start = 0, end = array.length - 1; start <= end; start++, end--) {
    int aux = array[start];
    array[start]=array[end];
    array[end]=aux;
}

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This will help you

int a[] = {1,2,3,4,5};
for (int k = 0; k < a.length/2; k++) {
    int temp = a[k];
    a[k] = a[a.length-(1+k)];
    a[a.length-(1+k)] = temp;
}

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This is how I would personally solve it. The reason behind creating the parametrized method is to allow any array to be sorted... not just your integers.

I hope you glean something from it.

@Test
public void reverseTest(){
   Integer[] ints = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };
   Integer[] reversedInts = reverse(ints);

   assert ints[0].equals(reversedInts[3]);
   assert ints[1].equals(reversedInts[2]);
   assert ints[2].equals(reversedInts[1]);
   assert ints[3].equals(reversedInts[0]);

   reverseInPlace(reversedInts);
   assert ints[0].equals(reversedInts[0]);
}

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static <T> T[] reverse(T[] array) {
    if (array == null) {
        return (T[]) new ArrayList<T>().toArray();
    }
    List<T> copyOfArray = Arrays.asList(Arrays.copyOf(array, array.length));
    Collections.reverse(copyOfArray);
    return copyOfArray.toArray(array);
}

private static <T> T[] reverseInPlace(T[] array) {
    if(array == null) {
        // didn't want two unchecked suppressions
        return reverse(array);
    }

    Collections.reverse(Arrays.asList(array));
    return array;
}

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If working with data that is more primitive (i.e. char, byte, int, etc) then you can do some fun XOR operations.

public static void reverseArray4(int[] array) {
    int len = array.length;
    for (int i = 0; i < len/2; i++) {
        array[i] = array[i] ^ array[len - i  - 1];
        array[len - i  - 1] = array[i] ^ array[len - i  - 1];
        array[i] = array[i] ^ array[len - i  - 1];
    }
}

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Your program will work for only length = 0, 1. You can try :

int i = 0, j = validData.length-1 ; 
while(i < j)
{
     swap(validData, i++, j--);  // code for swap not shown, but easy enough
}

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There are two ways to have a solution for the problem:

1. Reverse an array in space.

Step 1. Swap the elements at the start and the end index.

Step 2. Increment the start index decrement the end index.

Step 3. Iterate Step 1 and Step 2 till start index < end index

For this, the time complexity will be O(n) and the space complexity will be O(1)

Sample code for reversing an array in space is like:

public static int[] reverseAnArrayInSpace(int[] array) {
    int startIndex = 0;
    int endIndex = array.length - 1;
    while(startIndex < endIndex) {
        int temp = array[endIndex];
        array[endIndex] = array[startIndex];
        array[startIndex] = temp;
        startIndex++;
        endIndex--;
    }
    return array;
}

2. Reverse an array using an auxiliary array.

Step 1. Create a new array of size equal to the given array.

Step 2. Insert elements to the new array starting from the start index, from the given array starting from end index.

For this, the time complexity will be O(n) and the space complexity will be O(n)

Sample code for reversing an array with auxiliary array is like:

public static int[] reverseAnArrayWithAuxiliaryArray(int[] array) {
    int[] reversedArray = new int[array.length];
    for(int index = 0; index < array.length; index++) {
        reversedArray[index] = array[array.length - index -1]; 
    }
    return reversedArray;
}

Also, we can use the Collections API from Java to do this.

The Collections API internally uses the same reverse in space approach.

Sample code for using the Collections API is like:

public static Integer[] reverseAnArrayWithCollections(Integer[] array) {
    List<Integer> arrayList = Arrays.asList(array);
    Collections.reverse(arrayList);
    return arrayList.toArray(array);
}

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There are some great answers above, but this is how I did it:

public static int[] test(int[] arr) {

    int[] output = arr.clone();
    for (int i = arr.length - 1; i > -1; i--) {
        output[i] = arr[arr.length - i - 1];
    }
    return output;
}

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It is most efficient to simply iterate the array backwards.

I'm not sure if Aaron's solution does this vi this call Collections.reverse(list); Does anyone know?

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public void getDSCSort(int[] data){
        for (int left = 0, right = data.length - 1; left < right; left++, right--){
            // swap the values at the left and right indices
            int temp = data[left];
            data[left]  = data[right];
            data[right] = temp;
        }
    }

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Solution with o(n) time complexity and o(1) space complexity.

void reverse(int[] array) {
    int start = 0;
    int end = array.length - 1;
    while (start < end) {
        int temp = array[start];
        array[start] = array[end];
        array[end] = temp;
        start++;
        end--;
    }
}

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public void display(){
  String x[]=new String [5];
  for(int i = 4 ; i > = 0 ; i-- ){//runs backwards

    //i is the nums running backwards therefore its printing from       
    //highest element to the lowest(ie the back of the array to the front) as i decrements

    System.out.println(x[i]);
  }
}

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Wouldn't doing it this way be much more unlikely for mistakes?

    int[] intArray = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10};
    int[] temp = new int[intArray.length];
    for(int i = intArray.length - 1; i > -1; i --){
            temp[intArray.length - i -1] = intArray[i];
    }
    intArray = temp;

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Using the XOR solution to avoid the temp variable your code should look like

for(int i = 0; i < validData.length; i++){
    validData[i] = validData[i] ^ validData[validData.length - i - 1];
    validData[validData.length - i - 1] = validData[i] ^ validData[validData.length - i - 1];
    validData[i] = validData[i] ^ validData[validData.length - i - 1];
}

See this link for a better explanation:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/swap-two-variables-using-xor/

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2 ways to reverse an Array .

Using For loop and swap the elements till the mid point with time complexity of O(n/2). private static void reverseArray() { int[] array = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; for (int i = 0; i < array.length / 2; i++) { int temp = array[i]; int index = array.length - i - 1; array[i] = array[index]; array[index] = temp; } System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array)); } Using built in function (Collections.reverse()) private static void reverseArrayUsingBuiltInFun() { int[] array = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; Collections.reverse(Ints.asList(array)); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array)); } Output : [6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

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    public static void main(String args[])    {
        int [] arr = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50}; 
        reverse(arr, arr.length);
    }

    private static void reverse(int[] arr,    int length)    {

        for(int i=length;i>0;i--)    { 
            System.out.println(arr[i-1]); 
        }
    }

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below is the complete program to run in your machine.

public class ReverseArray {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int arr[] = new int[] { 10,20,30,50,70 };
        System.out.println("reversing an array:");
        for(int i = 0; i < arr.length / 2; i++){
            int temp = arr[i];
            arr[i] = arr[arr.length - i - 1];
            arr[arr.length - i - 1] = temp;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(arr[i]);
        }   
    }
}

For programs on matrix using arrays this will be the good source.Go through the link.

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private static int[] reverse(int[] array){
    int[] reversedArray = new int[array.length];
    for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
        reversedArray[i] = array[array.length - i - 1];
    }
    return reversedArray;
} 

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Here is a simple implementation, to reverse array of any type, plus full/partial support.

import java.util.logging.Logger;

public final class ArrayReverser {
 private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(ArrayReverser.class.getName());

 private ArrayReverser () {

 }

 public static <T> void reverse(T[] seed) {
    reverse(seed, 0, seed.length);
 }

 public static <T> void reverse(T[] seed, int startIndexInclusive, int endIndexExclusive) {
    if (seed == null || seed.length == 0) {
        LOGGER.warning("Nothing to rotate");
    }
    int start = startIndexInclusive < 0 ? 0 : startIndexInclusive;
    int end = Math.min(seed.length, endIndexExclusive) - 1;
    while (start < end) {
        swap(seed, start, end);
        start++;
        end--;
    }
}

 private static <T> void swap(T[] seed, int start, int end) {
    T temp =  seed[start];
    seed[start] = seed[end];
    seed[end] = temp;
 }  

}

Here is the corresponding Unit Test

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class ArrayReverserTest {
private Integer[] seed;

@Before
public void doBeforeEachTestCase() {
    this.seed = new Integer[]{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};
}

@Test
public void wholeArrayReverse() {
    ArrayReverser.<Integer>reverse(seed);
    assertThat(seed[0], is(8));
}

 @Test
 public void partialArrayReverse() {
    ArrayReverser.<Integer>reverse(seed, 1, 5);
    assertThat(seed[1], is(5));
 }
}

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Here is what I've come up with:

// solution 1 - boiler plated 
Integer[] original = {100, 200, 300, 400};
Integer[] reverse = new Integer[original.length];

int lastIdx = original.length -1;
int startIdx = 0;

for (int endIdx = lastIdx; endIdx >= 0; endIdx--, startIdx++)
   reverse[startIdx] = original[endIdx];

System.out.printf("reverse form: %s", Arrays.toString(reverse));

// solution 2 - abstracted 
// convert to list then use Collections static reverse()
List<Integer> l = Arrays.asList(original);
Collections.reverse(l);
System.out.printf("reverse form: %s", l);

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static int[] reverseArray(int[] a) {
     int ret[] = new int[a.length];
     for(int i=0, j=a.length-1; i<a.length && j>=0; i++, j--)
         ret[i] = a[j];
     return ret;
}

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 public static int[] reverse(int[] array) {

    int j = array.length-1;
    // swap the values at the left and right indices //////
        for(int i=0; i<=j; i++)
        {
             int temp = array[i];
                array[i] = array[j];
                array[j] = temp;
           j--;
        }

         return array;
    }

      public static void main(String []args){
        int[] data = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
        reverse(data);

    }

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