Given a sorted integer array without duplicates, return the summary of its ranges.
Example 1:
Input: [0,1,2,4,5,7]
Output: ["0->2","4->5","7"]
Explanation: 0,1,2 form a continuous range; 4,5 form a continuous range.
Example 2:
Input: [0,2,3,4,6,8,9]
Output: ["0","2->4","6","8->9"]
Explanation: 2,3,4 form a continuous range; 8,9 form a continuous range.
重点在于,用start = nums[0]来表示每次要group的第一个数,然后iterate,当需要group的时候group一下,再更新start. 用一个group函数来写更好:public String group(int start, int end) {if (start == end){…} else{…} )
public List<String> summaryRanges(int[] nums) {
List<String> res = new ArrayList<>();
if (nums.length == 0) return res;
if (nums.length == 1) {res.add(""+nums[0]); return res;}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int start = nums[0];
for (int i = 0; i < nums.length - 1; i++) {
if (nums[i] + 1 != nums[i+1]) {
if (start != nums[i]) sb.append(start).append("->").append(nums[i]);
else sb.append(start);
res.add(sb.toString());
start = nums[i+1];
sb = new StringBuilder();
}
if (i == nums.length - 2) {
if (nums[i] +1 != nums[i+1]) {
res.add(""+nums[i+1]);
} else {
sb.append(start).append("->").append(nums[i+1]);
res.add(sb.toString());
}
}
}
return res;
}
public List<String> summaryRanges(int[] nums) {
//special case
List<String> res = new ArrayList<>();
if (nums.length == 0) return res;
//base case
int start = nums[0];
//general case
for (int i = 1; i < nums.length; i++) {
if (nums[i] != nums[i - 1] + 1) {
group(res, start, nums[i - 1]);
start = nums[i];
}
}
group(res, start, nums[nums.length - 1]);
return res;
}
public void group(List<String> res, int start, int end) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
if (start == end) {
sb.append(start);
} else {
sb.append(start);
sb.append("->");
sb.append(end);
}
res.add(sb.toString());
}