leetcode 33.Search in Rotated Sorted Array

Suppose an array sorted in ascending order is rotated at some pivot unknown to you beforehand.

(i.e., [0,1,2,4,5,6,7] might become [4,5,6,7,0,1,2]).

You are given a target value to search. If found in the array return its index, otherwise return -1.

You may assume no duplicate exists in the array.

Your algorithm’s runtime complexity must be in the order of O(log n).

Example 1:

Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2], target = 0
Output: 4

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,5,6,7,0,1,2], target = 3
Output: -1

tag : array, binary search

method 1 binary search

观察题目发现，因为数组被旋转了，所以可以确定，左边被旋转的那一部分的第一个数比右边被旋转的部分都大，右边被旋转的最后一个数也是比左边被旋转的所有数都小，所以每次二分查找时，判断mid的左边和右边是否正常，比较target和nums[start]的大小关系，如果nums[start] 比 target大，说明target应该位于mid的右边

public int search(int[] nums, int target) {
    int start = 0;
    int end = nums.length - 1;
    while (start <= end){
        int mid = (start + end) / 2;
        if (nums[mid] == target)
            return mid;

        if (nums[start] <= nums[mid]){
            if (target < nums[mid] && target >= nums[start])
                end = mid - 1;
            else
                start = mid + 1;
        }

        if (nums[mid] <= nums[end]){
            if (target > nums[mid] && target <= nums[end])
                start = mid + 1;
            else
                end = mid - 1;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

summary

1. 虽然数组被改变过，但部分还是有序的，所以仍然可以使用二分查找