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]
.
vector<int> searchRange(int A[], int n, int target) {
// Start typing your C/C++ solution below
// DO NOT write int main() function
int begin = 0;
int end = n-1;
int index = -1;
vector<int> res;
while(begin < end)
{
int mid = (begin+end)/2;
if(A[mid] == target){index = mid; break;}
else if(target < A[mid])
end = mid-1;
else
begin = mid+1;
}
if(begin==end && A[begin]==target)
index = begin;
if(index == -1)
{
res.push_back(-1);
res.push_back(-1);
return res;
}else{
begin = index;
while(begin >=0 && A[begin]==target)begin--;
begin++;
end = index;
while(end < n && A[end]==target)end++;
end--;
res.push_back(begin);
res.push_back(end);
return res;
}
}