TheAlgorithms-Ruby/sorting/quicksort.rb

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def quicksort(arr)
return [] if arr.empty?
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# chose a random pivot value
pivot = arr.delete_at(rand(arr.size))
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# partition array into 2 arrays and comparing them to each other and eventually returning
# array with the pivot value sorted
left, right = arr.partition(&pivot.method(:>))
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# recursively calling the quicksort method on itself
return *quicksort(left), pivot, *quicksort(right)
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end
arr = [34, 2, 1, 5, 3]
p quicksort(arr)