How to print the left rotated array in C++

In this C++ article, given an array of size N, we have to print the elements of the left rotated array by d positions.

Let’s take the help of an example.

Input:

n = 7, d = 2

array:      1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Output:  3 4 5 6 7 1 2

Printing the left rotated array using C++

Code Implementation for our task:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int n,d;
  cout<<"Enter the value of n and d"<<endl;
  cin>>n>>d;
  
        int a[n];
  cout<<"enter the array elements : ";
  for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
  {
    cin>>a[i];
  }

  cout<<"array elements after rotation : ";
  for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
  {
    cout<<a[(i+d)%n]<<" ";
  }
  return 0;
}

Output :

Enter the value of n and d

7 3

enter the array elements : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

array elements after rotation : 4 5 6 7 1 2 3

Working :

The general approach to solve this problem is to shift the elements d times but this is a time-consuming process. To avoid this, we follow a different strategy.

Let, ‘i’ be the i^th iteration, D be the number of elements to rotate and N be the size of the array.

Then to rotate the array to its left, we can use,   arr[i] = arr[(i+D)%N], this creates a new array from index 3 of the original array as i=0. Thus in the above example the value at index 3, i.e 4 becomes the first element of the left rotated array. This runs as a loop for every index in the loop.

I hope, you have understood how our program works to print the left rotated array in C++ language.

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