至少，这里有几个基于字符串的暴力解决方案的例子，你应该能够马上想到:

38276中的数字排序为23678

38627排序的数字列表是23678

蛮力增量，排序和比较

沿着蛮力解决方案将转换为字符串 然后用这些数字强行找出所有可能的数字。

从它们中创建int，把它们放在一个列表中并排序， 获取目标条目之后的下一个条目。

如果你花了30分钟在这个问题上，却没有想出一个蛮力的方法，我也不会雇用你。

在商业世界中，一个不优雅、缓慢和笨拙但能完成工作的解决方案总是比没有解决方案更有价值，事实上，这几乎描述了所有不优雅、缓慢和笨拙的商业软件。

public static void findNext(long number){

        /* convert long to string builder */    

        StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
        s.append(number);
        int N = s.length();
        int index=-1,pivot=-1;

/* from tens position find the number (called pivot) less than the number in right */ 

        for(int i=N-2;i>=0;i--){

             int a = s.charAt(i)-'0';
             int b = s.charAt(i+1)-'0';

             if(a<b){
                pivot = a;
                index =i;
                break;
            }
        }

      /* if no such pivot then no solution */   

        if(pivot==-1) System.out.println(" No such number ")

        else{   

     /* find the minimum highest number to the right higher than the pivot */

            int nextHighest=Integer.MAX_VALUE, swapIndex=-1;

            for(int i=index+1;i<N;i++){

            int a = s.charAt(i)-'0';

            if(a>pivot && a<nextHighest){
                    nextHighest = a;
                    swapIndex=i;
                }
            }


     /* swap the pivot and next highest number */

            s.replace(index,index+1,""+nextHighest);
            s.replace(swapIndex,swapIndex+1,""+pivot);

/* sort everything to right of pivot and replace the sorted answer to right of pivot */

            char [] sort = s.substring(index+1).toCharArray();
            Arrays.sort(sort);

            s.replace(index+1,N,String.copyValueOf(sort));

            System.out.println("next highest number is "+s);
        }

    }

这里是Java实现

public static int nextHigherNumber(int number) {
    Integer[] array = convertToArray(number);
    int pivotIndex = pivotMaxIndex(array);
    int digitInFirstSequence = pivotIndex -1;
    int lowerDigitIndexInSecondSequence = lowerDigitIndex(array[digitInFirstSequence], array, pivotIndex);
    swap(array, digitInFirstSequence, lowerDigitIndexInSecondSequence);
    doRercursiveQuickSort(array, pivotIndex, array.length - 1);
    return arrayToInteger(array);
}

public static Integer[] convertToArray(int number) {
    int i = 0;
    int length = (int) Math.log10(number);
    int divisor = (int) Math.pow(10, length);
    Integer temp[] = new Integer[length + 1];

    while (number != 0) {
        temp[i] = number / divisor;
        if (i < length) {
            ++i;
        }
        number = number % divisor;
        if (i != 0) {
            divisor = divisor / 10;
        }
    }
    return temp;
}

private static int pivotMaxIndex(Integer[] array) {
    int index = array.length - 1;
    while(index > 0) {
        if (array[index-1] < array[index]) {
            break;
        }
        index--;
    }       
    return index;
}

private static int lowerDigitIndex(int number, Integer[] array, int fromIndex) {
    int lowerMaxIndex = fromIndex;
    int lowerMax = array[lowerMaxIndex];
    while (fromIndex < array.length - 1) {
        if (array[fromIndex]> number && lowerMax > array[fromIndex]) {
            lowerMaxIndex = fromIndex; 
        }
        fromIndex ++;
    }
    return lowerMaxIndex;
}

public static int arrayToInteger(Integer[] array) {
    int number = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        number+=array[i] * Math.pow(10, array.length-1-i);
    }
    return number;
}

这里是单元测试

@Test
public void nextHigherNumberTest() {
    assertThat(ArrayUtils.nextHigherNumber(34722641), is(34724126));
    assertThat(ArrayUtils.nextHigherNumber(123), is(132));
}

回答在java与一个更多的条件添加

Next number should also be an Even number public static int nextDigit(int number) { String num = String.valueOf(number); int stop = 0; char[] orig_chars = null; char[] part1 = null; char[] part2 = null; orig_chars = num.toCharArray(); System.out.println("vivek c r"); for (int i = orig_chars.length - 1; i > 0; i--) { String previous = orig_chars[i - 1] + ""; String next = orig_chars[i] + ""; if (Integer.parseInt(previous) < Integer.parseInt(next)) { if (Integer.parseInt(previous) % 2 == 0) { String partString1 = ""; String partString2 = ""; for (int j = 0; j <= i - 1; j++) { partString1 = partString1.concat(orig_chars[j] + ""); } part1 = partString1.toCharArray(); for (int k = i; k < orig_chars.length; k++) { partString2 = partString2.concat(orig_chars[k] + ""); } part2 = partString2.toCharArray(); Arrays.sort(part2); for (int l = 0; l < part2.length; l++) { char temp = '0'; if (part2[l] > part1[i - 1]) { temp = part1[i - 1]; part1[i - 1] = part2[l]; part2[l] = temp; break; } } for (int m = 0; m < part2.length; m++) { char replace = '0'; if (part2[m] % 2 == 0) { replace = part2[m]; for (int n = m; n < part2.length - 1; n++) { part2[n] = part2[n + 1]; } part2[part2.length - 1] = replace; break; } } System.out.print(part1); System.out.println(part2); System.exit(0); } } } System.out.println("NONE"); return 0; }

int t,k,num3,num5;
scanf("%d",&t);
int num[t];
for(int i=0;i<t;i++){
    scanf("%d",&num[i]);   
}
for(int i=0;i<t;i++){
    k=(((num[i]-1)/3)+1); 
    if(k<0)
        printf("-1");
    else if(num[i]<3 || num[i]==4 || num[i]==7)
        printf("-1");
    else{
        num3=3*(2*num[i] - 5*k);
        num5=5*(3*k -num[i]);
        for(int j=0;j<num3;j++)
            printf("5");
        for(int j=0;j<num5;j++)
            printf("3");
    }
    printf("\n");
}

我很确定你的面试官是想委婉地让你说出这样的话:

local number = 564321;

function split(str)
    local t = {};
    for i = 1, string.len(str) do
        table.insert(t, str.sub(str,i,i));
    end
    return t;
end

local res = number;
local i = 1;
while number >= res do
    local t = split(tostring(res));
    if i == 1 then
        i = #t;
    end
    t[i], t[i-1] = t[i-1], t[i];
    i = i - 1;
    res = tonumber(table.concat(t));
end

print(res);

不一定是最有效或最优雅的解决方案，但它在两个循环中解决了所提供的示例，并像他建议的那样一次交换一个数字。