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]
.
The following code needs O(n) for the worst case.
public class Solution {
public int[] searchRange(int[] A, int target) {
int[] indices = new int[]{-1,-1};
int length = A.length;
int index = Arrays.binarySearch(A, target);
if(index >= 0){
int left = index, right = index;
while(left > -1 && A[left] == target){
--left;
}
while(right < length && A[right] == target){
++right;
}
indices[0] = left + 1;
indices[1] = right - 1;
}
return indices;
}
}