Follow up for "Search in Rotated Sorted Array":
What if duplicates are allowed?
Would this affect the run-time complexity? How and why?
Write a function to determine if a given target is in the array.
bool search(int A[], int n, int target) {
// Note: The Solution object is instantiated only once.
int begin = 0;
int end = n-1;
while(begin < end)
{
int mid = (begin+end)/2;
if(A[mid] == target)return true;
else if(A[begin] == A[mid])
{
for(int i = begin; i< mid; i++)
if(A[i]==target)return true;
begin = mid+1;
}
else if(A[begin] < A[mid])//begin-mid increase
{
if(A[begin] <= target && target < A[mid])
end = mid-1;
else
begin = mid+1;
}
else//mid-end increase
{
if(A[mid] < target && target <= A[end])
begin = mid+1;
else
end = mid-1;
}
}
if(begin==end && A[begin]==target)
return true;
else
return false;
}