描述
Follow up for "Search in Rotated Sorted Array":
What if duplicates are allowed?
Would this affect the run-time complexity? How and why?
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).
Write a function to determine if a given target is in the array.
The array may contain duplicates.
分析
允许重复元素,则上一题中如果 A[m]>=A[l], 那么 [l,m] 为递增序列的假设就不能成立了,比 如 [1,3,1,1,1]。
如果 A[m]>=A[l] 不能确定递增,那就把它拆分成两个条件:
• 若 A[m]>A[l],则区间 [l,m] 一定递增
• 若 A[m]==A[l] 确定不了,那就 l++,往下看一步即可。
代码
class Solution {
public:
bool search(vector<int>& nums, int target) {
int first = 0;
int last = nums.size();
while (first != last) {
int mid = (first + last) / 2;
if (nums[mid] == target)
return true;
if (nums[first] < nums[mid]) {
if (nums[first] <= target && target < nums[mid])
last = mid;
else
first = mid + 1;
}
else if (nums[first] > nums[mid]) {
if (nums[mid] < target && target <= nums[last - 1])
first = mid + 1;
else
last = mid;
}
else
++first; // skip duplicate one
}
return false;
}
};