Summary Ranges

Given a sorted integer array without duplicates, return the summary of its ranges.

For example, given [0,1,2,4,5,7], return ["0->2","4->5","7"].

Credits:
Special thanks to @jianchao.li.fighter for adding this problem and creating all test cases.

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public class Solution {
    public List<String> summaryRanges(int[] nums) {
        List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();
        int len = nums.length;
        if(len < 1)
            return ret;
        StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        for(int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++){
            buffer.append(nums[i]);
            if(i < len - 1 && nums[i] + 1 == nums[i + 1]){
                buffer.append("->");
                while(i < len - 1 && nums[i] + 1 == nums[i + 1]){
                    i++;
                }
                buffer.append(nums[i]);
            }
            ret.add(buffer.toString());
            buffer = new StringBuilder();
        }
        return ret;
    }
}