只是使用python的另一个解决方案:

def PermutationStep(num):
    if sorted(list(str(num)), reverse=True) == list(str(num)):
        return -1
    ls = list(str(num))
    n = 0
    inx = 0
    for ind, i in enumerate(ls[::-1]):
        if i < n:
            n = i
            inx = -(ind + 1)
            break
        n = i
    ls[inx], ls[inx + 1] = ls[inx + 1], ls[inx]

    nl = ls[inx::-1][::-1]
    ln = sorted(ls[inx+1:])
    return ''.join(nl) + ''.join(ln)

print PermutationStep(23514)

输出:

23541

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));
}

有很多不错的答案，但我没有找到一个像样的Java实现。以下是我的观点:

public void findNext(int[] nums) {
    int i = nums.length - 1;
    // nums[i - 1] will be the first non increasing number
    while (i > 0 && nums[i] <= nums[i - 1]) {
        i--;
    }
    if (i == 0) {
        System.out.println("it has been the greatest already");
    } else {
        // Find the smallest digit in the second sequence that is larger than it:
        int j = nums.length - 1;
        while (j >= 0 && nums[j] < nums[i - 1]) {
            j--;
        }
        swap(nums, i - 1, j);
        Arrays.sort(nums, i, nums.length);
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(nums));
    }
}

public void swap(int[] nums, int i, int j) {
    int tmp = nums[i];
    nums[i] = nums[j];
    nums[j] = tmp;
}

PHP代码

function NextHigherNumber($num1){
$num = strval($num1);
$max = 0;
for($i=(strlen($num)-2); $i>=0; $i--){
    $numArrayRaw = substr($num, $i);
    $numArray = str_split($numArrayRaw);
    $max = max($numArray);
    if ($numArray[0] < $max){
        sort( $numArray, SORT_NUMERIC );
        array_pop($numArray);
        $numarrstr = implode("",$numArray);
        $rt = substr($num,0,$i) . $max . $numarrstr;
        return $rt;
    }
}
return "-1";
}
echo NextHigherNumber(123);

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。

在Java中，这个算法比这个算法更简洁

   public static int permutate2(int number){
        String[] numArray = String.valueOf(number).split("");

        for(int i = numArray.length - 1; i > 0; i--){
            int current = Integer.valueOf(numArray[i]);
            int previous = Integer.valueOf(numArray[i - 1]);

            if(previous < current){
                String[] rest = String.valueOf(number).substring(i, numArray.length).split("");
                Arrays.sort(rest);

                String picker = rest[0];
                int pickerIndex = 0;
                for(int n = 0; n < rest.length ; n++){
                    if(Integer.valueOf(rest[n]) > previous){
                        picker = rest[n];
                        pickerIndex = n;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                numArray[i - 1] = picker;
                rest[pickerIndex] = String.valueOf(previous);
                Arrays.sort(rest);

                String newNumber = "";
                for(int z = 0; z <= i - 1; z++){
                    newNumber += numArray[z];
                }
                for(String z : rest){
                    newNumber += z;
                }

                return Integer.valueOf(newNumber);
            }
        }

        return number;
   }