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package misc;
/**
* Steps:-
* 1) Divide the unsorted array into n partitions, each partition
* contains 1 element. Here the one element is considered as sorted.
* 2) Repeatedly merge partitioned units to produce new sublists until there is
* only 1 sublist remaining. This will be the sorted list at the end.
*
*/
public class MergeSort {
private int[] array;
private int[] tmp;
private int length;
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] input = { 45, 23, 11, 89, 77, 98, 4, 28, 65, 43 };
MergeSort ms = new MergeSort();
ms.sort(input);
for (int i : input) {
System.out.print(i);
System.out.print(" ");
}
}
public void sort(int[] input) {
this.array = input;
this.length = input.length;
this.tmp = new int[length];
doMergeSort(0, length - 1);
}
private void doMergeSort(int lowerIndex, int higherIndex) {
if (lowerIndex < higherIndex) {
int middle = lowerIndex + (higherIndex - lowerIndex) / 2;
// sorts the left side of the array
doMergeSort(lowerIndex, middle);
// sorts the right side of the array
doMergeSort(middle + 1, higherIndex);
// Now merge both sides
mergeParts(lowerIndex, middle, higherIndex);
}
}
private void mergeParts(int lowerIndex, int middle, int higherIndex) {
for (int i = lowerIndex; i