[Solved] Can anyone explain me this quicksort example?

Question

The code snippet swaps the values of array[left] and array[right], nothing more.

It does so by first memorizing the value of array[left] in a temporary variable temp because it soon gets overridden.

After that it overrides the value at array[left] with the value stored in array[right].

Finally it writes the memorized value of the old array[left], stored in temp, to array[right].

Here is a small illustration of the process:

Accepted Answer

The code snippet swaps the values of array[left] and array[right], nothing more.

It does so by first memorizing the value of array[left] in a temporary variable temp because it soon gets overridden.

After that it overrides the value at array[left] with the value stored in array[right].

Finally it writes the memorized value of the old array[left], stored in temp, to array[right].

Here is a small illustration of the process: