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) {
int pivot = 0;
int n = A.length;
int left = 0, right = n - 1;
int mid = (left + right) / 2;
//find pivot
while (left <= right) {
//check if current value equals to next one.
if (left < n - 1 && A[left] == A[left + 1]) {
++left;
continue;
}
mid = (left + right) / 2;
if (A[left] >= A[mid])
right = mid - 1;
else
left = mid + 1;
if (mid > 0 && A[mid] < A[mid - 1]) {
pivot = mid;
break;
}
if (mid < n - 1 && A[mid] > A[mid + 1]) {
pivot = mid + 1;
break;
}
}
left = 0;
right = n - 1;
//find target.
while (left <= right) {
mid = (left + right) / 2;
int m = (mid + pivot) % n;
if (target > A[m]) {
left = mid + 1;
}
else if (target < A[m]) {
right = mid - 1;
}
else
return true;
}
return false;
}
}