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].
code
public class SearchForRange {
public int[] searchRange(int[] A, int target) {
if (A.length == 0) {
return new int[] { -1, -1 };
}
int start, end, mid;
int[] bound = new int[2];
// search for left bound
start = 0;
end = A.length - 1;
while (start + 1 < end) {
mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
if (A[mid] == target) {
end = mid;
} else if (A[mid] < target) {
start = mid;
} else {
end = mid;
}
}
if (A[start] == target) {
bound[0] = start;
} else if (A[end] == target) {
bound[0] = end;
} else {
bound[0] = bound[1] = -1;
return bound;
}
// search for right bound
start = 0;
end = A.length - 1;
while (start + 1 < end) {
mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
if (A[mid] == target) {
start = mid;
} else if (A[mid] < target) {
start = mid;
} else {
end = mid;
}
}
if (A[end] == target) {
bound[1] = end;
} else if (A[start] == target) {
bound[1] = start;
} else {
bound[0] = bound[1] = -1;
return bound;
}
return bound;
}
}