The purpose of the algorithm is to find the index of the given key in the array.
Before this,you need to hava a sorted array.
public static int binarySearch(int[] a, int key)
{
int lo = 0, hi = a.length-1;
while (lo <= hi)
{
int mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
if (key < a[mid]) hi = mid - 1;
else if (key > a[mid]) lo = mid + 1;
else return mid;
}
return -1;
}