[LeetCode]34. Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array

二分查找的扩展

Posted by JinFei on December 30, 2019

题目描述

Given an array of integers nums sorted in ascending order, find the starting and ending position of a given target value.
Your algorithm’s runtime complexity must be in the order of O(log n).
If the target is not found in the array, return [-1, -1].

Example1:

Input: nums = [5,7,7,8,8,10], target = 8
Output: [3,4]

Example2:

Input: nums = [5,7,7,8,8,10], target = 6
Output: [-1,-1]

解题思路

  • 普通的二分
  • 注意二分循环结束的条件,begin <= end,这一点一直卡了很久。。。

C++代码

class Solution {
public:
    vector<int> searchRange(vector<int>& nums, int target) {
        vector<int> res;
        res.push_back(findFirstK(nums, target));
        res.push_back(findLastK(nums, target));
        return res;
    }
    int findFirstK(vector<int> nums, int target){
        int begin = 0;
        int end = nums.size() - 1;
        int mid = 0;
        while(begin <= end){
            mid = (begin + end) / 2;
            if(nums[mid] == target){
                if((mid > 0 && nums[mid - 1] != target) || mid == 0){
                    return mid;
                }else {
                    end = mid - 1;
                }
            }
            else if(nums[mid] < target){
                begin = mid + 1;
            }else if(nums[mid] > target){
                end = mid - 1;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }
    
    int findLastK(vector<int> nums, int target){
        int begin = 0;
        int end = nums.size() - 1;
        int mid = 0;
        while(begin <= end){
            mid = (begin + end) / 2;
            if(nums[mid] == target){
                if((mid < nums.size() - 1 && nums[mid + 1] != target) || (mid == nums.size() - 1)){
                    return mid;
                }else{
                    begin = mid + 1;
                }
            }
            else if(nums[mid] < target){
                begin = mid + 1;
            }else if(nums[mid] > target){
                end = mid - 1;
            }
        }
        return -1;
        
    }
};