Partition
Quick sort is based on the Divide-and-conquer approach. In QuickSort(A, p, r), first, a procedure Partition(A, p, r) divides an array A[p..r] into two subarrays A[p..q-1] and A[q+1..r] such that each element of A[p..q-1] is less than or equal to A[q], which is, inturn, less than or equal to each element of A[q+1..r]. It also computes the index q.
In the conquer processes, the two subarrays A[p..q-1] and A[q+1..r] are sorted by recursive calls of QuickSort(A, p, q-1) and QuickSort(A, q+1, r).
Your task is to read a sequence A and perform the Partition based on the following pseudocode:
Partition(A, p, r)
1 x = A[r]
2 i = p-1
3 for j = p to r-1
4 do if A[j] <= x
5 then i = i+1
6 exchange A[i] and A[j]
7 exchange A[i+1] and A[r]
8 return i+1
Note that, in this algorithm, Partition always selects an element A[r] as a pivot element around which to partition the array A[p..r].