/** * File: binary_search_edge.swift * Created Time: 2023-08-06 * Author: nuomi1 (nuomi1@qq.com) */ import binary_search_insertion_target /* Binary search for the leftmost target */ func binarySearchLeftEdge(nums: [Int], target: Int) -> Int { // Equivalent to finding the insertion point of target let i = binarySearchInsertion(nums: nums, target: target) // Did not find target, thus return -1 if i == nums.endIndex || nums[i] != target { return -1 } // Found target, return index i return i } /* Binary search for the rightmost target */ func binarySearchRightEdge(nums: [Int], target: Int) -> Int { // Convert to finding the leftmost target + 1 let i = binarySearchInsertion(nums: nums, target: target + 1) // j points to the rightmost target, i points to the first element greater than target let 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 } @main enum BinarySearchEdge { /* Driver Code */ static func main() { // Array with duplicate elements let nums = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 12, 15] print("\nArray nums = \(nums)") // Binary search for left and right boundaries for target in [6, 7] { var index = binarySearchLeftEdge(nums: nums, target: target) print("The leftmost index of element \(target) is \(index)") index = binarySearchRightEdge(nums: nums, target: target) print("The rightmost index of element \(target) is \(index)") } } }