Follow up for "Search in Rotated Sorted Array":
What if duplicates are allowed?
Would this affect the run-time complexity? How and why?
Write a function to determine if a given target is in the array.
public class Solution {
public boolean search(int[] A, int target) {
// Start typing your Java solution below
// DO NOT write main() function
int len = A.length;
if (len < 1)
return false;
int start = 0, end = len - 1, mid;
while (start <= end) {
mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
if(A[mid] == target)
return true;
if(A[start] < A[mid]){// sorted left, unsorted right
if(target >= A[start] && target <= A[mid])
end = mid - 1;
else
start = mid + 1;
}
else if(A[start] > A[mid]){// unsorted left, sorted right
if(target >= A[mid] && target <= A[end])
start = mid + 1;
else
end = mid - 1;
}
else // skip duplicate one, A[start] = A[mid]
start++;
}
return false;
}
}