Many of the solutions here sort or reverse the IntStream
, but that unnecessarily requires intermediate storage. Stuart Marks's solution is the way to go:
static IntStream revRange(int from, int to) { return IntStream.range(from, to).map(i -> to - i + from - 1); }
It correctly handles overflow as well, passing this test:
@Test public void testRevRange() { assertArrayEquals(revRange(0, 5).toArray(), new int[]{4, 3, 2, 1, 0}); assertArrayEquals(revRange(-5, 0).toArray(), new int[]{-1, -2, -3, -4, -5}); assertArrayEquals(revRange(1, 4).toArray(), new int[]{3, 2, 1}); assertArrayEquals(revRange(0, 0).toArray(), new int[0]); assertArrayEquals(revRange(0, -1).toArray(), new int[0]); assertArrayEquals(revRange(MIN_VALUE, MIN_VALUE).toArray(), new int[0]); assertArrayEquals(revRange(MAX_VALUE, MAX_VALUE).toArray(), new int[0]); assertArrayEquals(revRange(MIN_VALUE, MIN_VALUE + 1).toArray(), new int[]{MIN_VALUE}); assertArrayEquals(revRange(MAX_VALUE - 1, MAX_VALUE).toArray(), new int[]{MAX_VALUE - 1}); }