这是一个如今被高估的面试问题。

我的建议是:不要让面试官用他们关于解决这个问题的疯狂建议把你弄糊涂了。使用白板绘制输入数组的索引，然后绘制输出数组的索引。旋转前后的列分度示例如下:

30 --> 00
20 --> 01
10 --> 02
00 --> 03

31 --> 10
21 --> 11
11 --> 12
01 --> 13

注意旋转后的数字模式。

下面提供了一个简洁的Java解决方案。经过测试，它是有效的:

 Input:
    M A C P 
    B N L D 
    Y E T S 
    I W R Z 

    Output:
    I Y B M 
    W E N A 
    R T L C 
    Z S D P 

/**
 * (c) @author "G A N MOHIM"
 * Oct 3, 2015
 * RotateArrayNintyDegree.java
 */
package rotatearray;

public class RotateArrayNintyDegree {

    public char[][] rotateArrayNinetyDegree(char[][] input) {
        int k; // k is used to generate index for output array

        char[][] output = new char[input.length] [input[0].length];

        for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
            k = 0;
            for (int j = input.length-1; j >= 0; j--) {
                output[i][k] = input[j][i]; // note how i is used as column index, and j as row
                k++;
            }
        }

        return output;
    }

    public void printArray(char[][] charArray) {
        for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < charArray[0].length; j++) {
                System.out.print(charArray[i][j] + " ");
            }
            System.out.println();
        }


    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        char[][] input = 
                { {'M', 'A', 'C', 'P'},
                  {'B', 'N', 'L', 'D'},
                  {'Y', 'E', 'T', 'S'},
                  {'I', 'W', 'R', 'Z'}
                };

        char[][] output = new char[input.length] [input[0].length];

        RotateArrayNintyDegree rotationObj = new RotateArrayNintyDegree();
        rotationObj.printArray(input);

        System.out.println("\n");
        output = rotationObj.rotateArrayNinetyDegree(input);
        rotationObj.printArray(output);

    }

}

当前所有的解决方案都有O(n^2)开销作为临时空间(这不包括那些肮脏的OOP骗子!)这里有一个内存占用为O(1)的解决方案，将矩阵原地右转90度。该死的延展性，这玩意儿跑得很快!

#include <algorithm>
#include <cstddef>

// Rotates an NxN matrix of type T 90 degrees to the right.
template <typename T, size_t N>
void rotate_matrix(T (&matrix)[N][N])
{
    for(size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
        for(size_t j = 0; j <= (N-i); ++j)
            std::swap(matrix[i][j], matrix[j][i]);
}

免责声明:我实际上并没有测试这个。让我们玩打虫游戏吧!

下面是Java语言:

public static void rotateInPlace(int[][] m) {
    for(int layer = 0; layer < m.length/2; layer++){
        int first = layer;
        int last = m.length - 1 - first;
        for(int i = first; i < last; i ++){
            int offset = i - first;
            int top = m[first][i];
            m[first][i] = m[last - offset][first];
            m[last - offset][first] = m[last][last - offset];
            m[last][last - offset] = m[i][last];
            m[i][last] = top;
        }
    }
}

这是c#的

int[,] array = new int[4,4] {
    { 1,2,3,4 },
    { 5,6,7,8 },
    { 9,0,1,2 },
    { 3,4,5,6 }
};

int[,] rotated = RotateMatrix(array, 4);

static int[,] RotateMatrix(int[,] matrix, int n) {
    int[,] ret = new int[n, n];

    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
            ret[i, j] = matrix[n - j - 1, i];
        }
    }

    return ret;
}

在python中:

import numpy as np

a = np.array(
    [
        [1, 2, 3, 4],
        [5, 6, 7, 8],
        [9, 0, 1, 2],
        [3, 4, 5, 6]
    ]
)

print(a)
print(b[::-1, :].T)

下面是PHP的递归方法:

$m = array();
            $m[0] = array('a', 'b', 'c');
            $m[1] = array('d', 'e', 'f');
            $m[2] = array('g', 'h', 'i');
            $newMatrix = array();

            function rotateMatrix($m, $i = 0, &$newMatrix)
            {
                foreach ($m as $chunk) {
                    $newChunk[] = $chunk[$i];
                }
                $newMatrix[] = array_reverse($newChunk);
                $i++;

                if ($i < count($m)) {
                    rotateMatrix($m, $i, $newMatrix);
                }
            }

            rotateMatrix($m, 0, $newMatrix);
            echo '<pre>';
            var_dump($newMatrix);
            echo '<pre>';