Given a sorted array of integers, 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]
.
For example,
Given [5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 10]
and target value 8,
return [3, 4]
.
vector<int> searchRange(int A[], int n, int target) {
int low = 0, high = n, mid;
while (low < high)
{
mid = (low + high) / 2;
if (A[mid] < target)
low = mid + 1;
else if (A[mid] > target)
high = mid;
else
break;
}
vector<int> result;
if (A[mid] != target)
{
result.push_back(-1);
result.push_back(-1);
}
else
{
int low1 = low, high1 = mid;
while (low1 < high1)
{
mid = (low1 + high1) / 2;
if (A[mid] >= target)
high1 = mid;
else
low1 = mid + 1;
}
result.push_back(low1);
low1 = mid, high1 = high;
while (low1 < high1)
{
mid = (low1 + high1) / 2;
if (A[mid] > target)
high1 = mid;
else
low1 = mid + 1;
}
result.push_back(low1 - 1);
}
return result;
}