LeetCode-744. 寻找比目标字母大的最小字母

744. 寻找比目标字母大的最小字母

难度简单

给你一个排序后的字符列表 letters ，列表中只包含小写英文字母。另给出一个目标字母 target，请你寻找在这一有序列表里比目标字母大的最小字母。

在比较时，字母是依序循环出现的。举个例子：

• 如果目标字母 target = 'z' 并且字符列表为 letters = ['a', 'b']，则答案返回 'a'

    public char nextGreatestLetter(char[] letters, char target) {
        int left = 0;
        int right = letters.length -1;
        while(left <= right) {
            int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
            if(letters[mid] == target) {
                left = mid + 1;
            } else if(letters[mid] < target) {
                left = mid + 1;
            } else if(letters[mid] > target) {
                right = mid - 1;
            }
        }
        // 若是二分查找 退出循环时，left==right+1, mid = left-1;  return right;
        return letters[left%letters.length];
    }

二分法总结模板

int binary_search(int[] nums, int target) {
    int left = 0, right = nums.length - 1; 
    while(left <= right) {
        int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
        if (nums[mid] < target) {
            left = mid + 1;
        } else if (nums[mid] > target) {
            right = mid - 1; 
        } else if(nums[mid] == target) {
            // 直接返回
            return mid;
        }
    }
    // 直接返回
    return -1;
}

int left_bound(int[] nums, int target) {
    int left = 0, right = nums.length - 1;
    while (left <= right) {
        int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
        if (nums[mid] < target) {
            left = mid + 1;
        } else if (nums[mid] > target) {
            right = mid - 1;
        } else if (nums[mid] == target) {
            // 别返回，锁定左侧边界
            right = mid - 1;
        }
    }
    // 最后要检查 left 越界的情况
    if (left >= nums.length || nums[left] != target)
        return -1;
    return left;
}


int right_bound(int[] nums, int target) {
    int left = 0, right = nums.length - 1;
    while (left <= right) {
        int mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
        if (nums[mid] < target) {
            left = mid + 1;
        } else if (nums[mid] > target) {
            right = mid - 1;
        } else if (nums[mid] == target) {
            // 别返回，锁定右侧边界
            left = mid + 1;
        }
    }
    // 最后要检查 right 越界的情况
    if (right < 0 || nums[right] != target)
        return -1;
    return right;
}