Reverse Words in a String

Explore how to reverse the order of words in a sentence while handling leading, trailing, and multiple spaces. Learn to implement a solution that maintains the original characters within words, ensuring a clean output with single spacing. This lesson uses the two pointers technique to develop a clear and efficient approach for this common string manipulation problem.

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You are given a string sentence that may contain leading or trailing spaces, as well as multiple spaces between words. Your task is to reverse the order of the words in the sentence without changing the order of characters within each word. Return the resulting modified sentence as a single string with words separated by a single space, and no leading or trailing spaces.

Note: A word is defined as a continuous sequence of non-space characters. Multiple words separated by single spaces form a valid ...