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88. Merge Sorted Array

Easy

You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, sorted in non-decreasing order, and two integers m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2 respectively.

Merge nums1 and nums2 into a single array sorted in non-decreasing order.

The final sorted array should not be returned by the function, but instead be stored inside the array nums1. To accommodate this, nums1 has a length of m + n, where the first m elements denote the elements that should be merged, and the last n elements are set to 0 and should be ignored. nums2 has a length of n.

class Solution:
    def merge(self, nums1: List[int], m: int, nums2: List[int], n: int) -> None:
        if n == 0:
            return

        while n > 0:
            if m == 0 or nums1[m - 1] <= nums2[n - 1]:
                nums1[m + n - 1] = nums2[n - 1]
                n -= 1
            else:
                nums1[m + n - 1] = nums1[m - 1]
                m -= 1