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Reverse Words in a String III

Problem Statement​

Given a string s, reverse the order of characters in each word within a sentence while still preserving whitespace and initial word order.

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Example 1:​

Input: s = "Let's take LeetCode contest"
Output: "s'teL ekat edoCteeL tsetnoc"

Example 2:​

Input: s = "God Ding"
Output: "doG gniD"

Constraints:​

  • 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 104
  • s contains printable ASCII characters.
  • s does not contain any leading or trailing spaces.
  • There is at least one word in s.
  • All the words in s are separated by a single space.

Code​

Python Code
class Solution:
    def reverseWords(self, s: str) -> str:

        words = s.split()

        reversed_words = []
        for word in words:
            reversed_words.append(word[::-1])

        return " ".join(reversed_words)