/** * File: binary_search_edge.js * Created Time: 2023-08-22 * Author: Gaofer Chou (gaofer-chou@qq.com) */ const { binarySearchInsertion } = require('./binary_search_insertion.js'); /* Binary search for the leftmost target */ function binarySearchLeftEdge(nums, target) { // Equivalent to finding the insertion point of target const i = binarySearchInsertion(nums, target); // Did not find target, thus return -1 if (i === nums.length || nums[i] !== target) { return -1; } // Found target, return index i return i; } /* Binary search for the rightmost target */ function binarySearchRightEdge(nums, target) { // Convert to finding the leftmost target + 1 const i = binarySearchInsertion(nums, target + 1); // j points to the rightmost target, i points to the first element greater than target const j = i - 1; // Did not find target, thus return -1 if (j === -1 || nums[j] !== target) { return -1; } // Found target, return index j return j; } /* Driver Code */ // Array with duplicate elements const nums = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 12, 15]; console.log('\nArray nums =' + nums); // Binary search for left and right boundaries for (const target of [6, 7]) { let index = binarySearchLeftEdge(nums, target); console.log('The leftmost index of element ' + target + ' is ' + index); index = binarySearchRightEdge(nums, target); console.log('The rightmost index of element ' + target + ' is ' + index); }