Monotonic Array

An array is monotonic if it is either monotone increasing or monotone decreasing.

An array A is monotone increasing if for all i <= j, A[i] <= A[j].  An array A is monotone decreasing if for all i <= j, A[i] >= A[j].

Return true if and only if the given array A is monotonic.

 

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,2,3]
Output: true

Example 2:

Input: [6,5,4,4]
Output: true

Example 3:

Input: [1,3,2]
Output: false

Example 4:

Input: [1,2,4,5]
Output: true

Example 5:

Input: [1,1,1]
Output: true

Note:

1. 1 <= A.length <= 50000
2. -100000 <= A[i] <= 100000

思路：找到不相同的元素，首先判断是递增还是递减，然后判断后面是否有违反规则的元素；

class Solution {
    public boolean isMonotonic(int[] A) {
        if(A == null || A.length == 0) {
            return false;
        }
        
        int i = 1;
        // skip same elements;
        while(i < A.length) {
            if(A[i - 1] != A[i]) {
                break;
            }
            i++;
        }
        // 如果跳出去了，证明全部一样，return true;
        if(i == A.length) {
            return true;
        }
        
        boolean increase = (A[i - 1] < A[i]);
        for(; i < A.length; i++) {
            if(increase && (A[i - 1] > A[i]) || !increase && A[i - 1] < A[i]) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
}