# (17) Array: Special Reverse

**Difficulty**: Easy

**Problem Statement**: Given a string and you need to reverse it such that after the reversal position of a special character do not change.

**Input**: intell#ect, **Output**: tcelle#tni

**Input**: h@ello, **Output**: o@lleh

**Input**: a#b@c, **Output**: c#b@a

**Approach**: We store special characters in `res` and the character which is not special we store space instead of that.

In `newS` we store the reverse of string except for a special character. Now we traverse both the list and at any point if there is a special character we store it in the answer else we store the alphabet. At last print the answer.

```
s = input()
res = []
for i in s:
    if i >= 'a' and i <= 'z': res.append(' ')
    else: res.append(i)
s = s[::-1]
pos = 0
newS = ''
for i in s:
    if i >= 'a' and i <= 'z':
        newS += i

(x, y) = (0, 0)
(n, m) = (len(newS), len(res))
ans = ''
while x < n and y < m:
    if res[y] != ' ':
        ans += res[y]
        y += 1
    else:
        ans += newS[x]
        x += 1
        y += 1
while x < n:
    ans += newS[x]
    x += 1
while y < m:
    if res[y] == ' ':
        y += 1
        continue
    ans += res[y]
    y += 1
print ans
``` 

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