Given a collection of intervals, find the minimum number of intervals you need to remove to make the rest of the intervals non-overlapping.
Note:
You may assume the interval's end point is always bigger than its start point.
Intervals like [1,2] and [2,3] have borders "touching" but they don't overlap each other.
Example 1:
Input: [ [1,2], [2,3], [3,4], [1,3] ]
Output: 1
Explanation: [1,3] can be removed and the rest of intervals are non-overlapping.
Example 2:
Input: [ [1,2], [1,2], [1,2] ]
Output: 2
Explanation: You need to remove two [1,2] to make the rest of intervals non-overlapping.
Example 3:
Input: [ [1,2], [2,3] ]
Output: 0
Explanation: You don't need to remove any of the intervals since they're already non-overlapping.
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这道题给了我们一堆区间,让我们求需要至少移除多少个区间才能使剩下的区间没有重叠,那么我们首先要给区间排序,根据每个区间的start来做升序排序,然后我们开始要查找重叠区间,判断方法是看如果前一个区间的end大于后一个区间的start,那么一定是重复区间,此时我们结果res自增1,我们需要删除一个,那么此时我们究竟该删哪一个呢,为了保证我们总体去掉的区间数最小,我们去掉那个end值较大的区间,而在代码中,我们并没有真正的删掉某一个区间,而是用一个变量last指向上一个需要比较的区间,我们将last指向end值较小的那个区间;如果两个区间没有重叠,那么此时last指向当前区间,继续进行下一次遍历,参见代码如下:
/**
* Definition for an interval.
* struct Interval {
* int start;
* int end;
* Interval() : start(0), end(0) {}
* Interval(int s, int e) : start(s), end(e) {}
* };
*/
class Solution {
public:
int eraseOverlapIntervals(vector<Interval>& intervals) {
int res=0,n=intervals.size(),last=0;
auto comp = [](const Interval& i1, const Interval& i2){ return i1.start < i2.start; };
sort(intervals.begin(),intervals.end(),comp);
for(int i=1;i<n;i++){
if(intervals[i].start<intervals[last].end){
++res;
if(intervals[i].end<intervals[last].end) last=i;
}else{
last=i;
}
}
return res;
}
};