LeetCode - Search For a Range

https://leetcode.com/problems/search-for-a-range/

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].

这道题蛮简单，最简单的就是遍历整个数组，时间复杂度O(n)，但是这样比较慢，所以用binary search来找到一个值，然后往两边扩展，这样平均时间是O(lgn)，最差是O(n)。

二分法代码如下：

    public int[] searchRange(int[] A, int target) {
        int[] rst = {-1, -1};
        if(A==null || A.length==0) return rst;
        int left = 0, right = A.length-1;
        while(left<=right){
            int mid=(left+right)/2;
            if(A[mid]==target){
                int l = mid;
                while(l>0 && A[l-1]==target) l--;
                rst[0] = l;
                int r = mid;
                while(r<A.length-1 && A[r+1]==target) r++;
                rst[1] = r;
                return rst;
            }
            else if(A[mid]<target) left = mid+1;
            else right = mid-1;
        }
        return rst;
    }

还有一个改进是，在找到一个值后，继续二分法搜寻左右直到找到左右的边界，这样最差也是O(lgn)了，代码我没写，见这里：
http://fisherlei.blogspot.com/2013/01/leetcode-search-for-range.html