Given an array of integers sorted in ascending order, 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].
主题思想: 题目也说了是有序数组,有序数组查找肯定是二分查找,题目又说是一个范围,那么首先二分查找得出一个下标,然后以下标为中心左右扩大窗口,就是一个范围,所以核心是二分查找,然后滑动扩大窗口,题目说了是有序,所以只需要判断左右是否是target
代码:
class Solution {
public int[] searchRange(int[] nums, int target) {
int [] ans={-1,-1};
if(nums==null||nums.length==0) return ans;
int start=find(nums,target);
int end=start;
if(start==-1) return ans;
int mid=start;
for(int i=mid-1;i>=0;i--){
if(nums[i]==target) start=i;
else break;
}
for(int i=mid+1;i<nums.length;i++){
if(nums[i]==target) end=i;
else break;
}
ans[0]=start;
ans[1]=end;
return ans;
}
public static int find(int[] nums,int target){
int low=0;
int hi=nums.length-1;
int mid=0;
while(low<=hi){
mid=low+(hi-low)/2;
if(target<nums[mid]){
hi=mid-1;
}else if(target>nums[mid]){
low=mid+1;
}else return mid;
}
return -1;
}
}