How to efficiently rotate an array?

Question

Given an array of n integers and a number, d, perform left rotations on the array. Then print the updated array as a single line of space-separated integers.

Sample Input:

5 4
1 2 3 4 5

The first line contains two space-separated integers denoting the respective values of n (the number of integers) and d (the number of left rotations you must perform). The second line contains n space-separated integers describing the respective elements of the array's initial state.

Sample Output:

5 1 2 3 4

static void Main(String[] args)
{
    string[] arr_temp = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ');
    int n = Int32.Parse(arr_temp[0]);
    int d = Int32.Parse(arr_temp[1]);

    string[] arr = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ');
    string[] ans = new string[n];

    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        ans[(i + n - d) % n] = arr[i];
    }

    for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j)
    {
        Console.Write(ans[j] + " ");
    }
}

How to use less memory to solve this problem?

Answer 1

This will use less memory in most cases as the second array is only as big as the shift.

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int[] n = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
    LeftShiftArray(n, 4);
    Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", n));
}

public static void LeftShiftArray<T>(T[] arr, int shift)
{
    shift = shift % arr.Length;
    T[] buffer = new T[shift];
    Array.Copy(arr, buffer, shift);
    Array.Copy(arr, shift, arr, 0, arr.Length - shift);
    Array.Copy(buffer, 0, arr, arr.Length - shift, shift);
}