题目:
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]
.
解答:
很明显对于求左边界可以直接用二分法即可,求右边界的时候直接利用已经知道的左边界即可
当然也可以利用二分法再进行一次右边界的求值(和左边界稍微有点不同,需要进行和右边的值得是否相等的判断,比如2,2这种情况的存在)
但是事实证明第一种方法在时间上是更优的
class Solution {
public:
vector<int> searchRange(vector<int>& nums, int target) {
int l = 0;
int r = nums.size() - 1;
int left = -1;
int right =-1;
while(l < r)
{
int mid = (l + r) >> 1;
if(nums[mid] == target)
r = mid;
else if(nums[mid] > target)
r = mid - 1;
else
l = mid + 1;
}
if(nums[l] == target)
left = l;
right = left;
if(left == -1) //先确认在数组中是否存在target目标的值
return {left,right};
while(right < nums.size() && nums[right] == target)
right++;
return {left,right - 1};
}
};