merge sorted array code example

Example 1: merge sort

// @see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es2T6KY45cA&vl=en
// @see https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/ComparisonSort.html

function merge(list, start, midpoint, end) {
    const left = list.slice(start, midpoint);
    const right = list.slice(midpoint, end);
    for (let topLeft = 0, topRight = 0, i = start; i < end; i += 1) {
        if (topLeft >= left.length) {
            list[i] = right[topRight++];
        } else if (topRight >= right.length) {
            list[i] = left[topLeft++];
        } else if (left[topLeft] < right[topRight]) {
            list[i] = left[topLeft++];
        } else {
            list[i] = right[topRight++];
        }
    }
}

function mergesort(list, start = 0, end = undefined) {
    if (end === undefined) {
        end = list.length;
    }
    if (end - start > 1) {
        const midpoint = ((end + start) / 2) >> 0;
        mergesort(list, start, midpoint);
        mergesort(list, midpoint, end);
        merge(list, start, midpoint, end);
    }
    return list;
}

mergesort([4, 7, 2, 6, 4, 1, 8, 3]);

Example 2: Write a function that takes in two sorted arrays and returns a new array with all elements sorted not using array method sort.

// const newSortArrays = (arr1, arr2) => {
//     let output = [];
//     while (arr1.length && arr2.length) {
//        if (arr1[0] < arr2[0]) 
//         output.push(arr1[0] < arr2[0] ? arr1.shift() : arr2.shift())
//     }
//     return [...output, ...arr1, ...arr2]
// }

Example 3: merge sort algorithm

/*  
    a[] is the array, p is starting index, that is 0, 
    and r is the last index of array. 
*/

#include <stdio.h>

// lets take a[5] = {32, 45, 67, 2, 7} as the array to be sorted.

// merge sort function
void mergeSort(int a[], int p, int r)
{
    int q;
    if(p < r)
    {
        q = (p + r) / 2;
        mergeSort(a, p, q);
        mergeSort(a, q+1, r);
        merge(a, p, q, r);
    }
}

// function to merge the subarrays
void merge(int a[], int p, int q, int r)
{
    int b[5];   //same size of a[]
    int i, j, k;
    k = 0;
    i = p;
    j = q + 1;
    while(i <= q && j <= r)
    {
        if(a[i] < a[j])
        {
            b[k++] = a[i++];    // same as b[k]=a[i]; k++; i++;
        }
        else
        {
            b[k++] = a[j++];
        }
    }
  
    while(i <= q)
    {
        b[k++] = a[i++];
    }
  
    while(j <= r)
    {
        b[k++] = a[j++];
    }
  
    for(i=r; i >= p; i--)
    {
        a[i] = b[--k];  // copying back the sorted list to a[]
    } 
}

// function to print the array
void printArray(int a[], int size)
{
    int i;
    for (i=0; i < size; i++)
    {
        printf("%d ", a[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
}
 
int main()
{
    int arr[] = {32, 45, 67, 2, 7};
    int len = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
 
    printf("Given array: \n");
    printArray(arr, len);
    
    // calling merge sort
    mergeSort(arr, 0, len - 1);
 
    printf("\nSorted array: \n");
    printArray(arr, len);
    return 0;
}

Example 4: write a function that takes in 2 arrays , merges them together an then return the new array sorted

// const twoArraysSorted = (arr) => {
//     let copy = [...];
//     copy.sort((a,b) => a-b).map(el=> el*2)
//     return arr
// }

Example 5: merge two sorted lists python

from heapq import merge 
  
# initializing lists 
test_list1 = [1, 5, 6, 9, 11] 
test_list2 = [3, 4, 7, 8, 10] 
  
# printing original lists  
print ("The original list 1 is : " + str(test_list1)) 
print ("The original list 2 is : " + str(test_list2)) 
  
# using heapq.merge() 
# to combine two sorted lists 
res = list(merge(test_list1, test_list2)) 
  
# printing result 
print ("The combined sorted list is : " + str(res))

Example 6: merge two sorted list in python

# l1 and l2 are lists
sorted(l1+l2)