Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array

IF
AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Medium20 mins

Given an array of integers nums sorted in non-decreasing order, find the starting and ending position of a given target value.

If target is not found in the array, return [-1, -1].

You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: nums = [5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 10], target = 8

Output: [3, 4]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 10], target = 6

Output: [-1, -1]

Example 3:

Input: nums = [], target = 0

Output: [-1, -1]

Constraints

  • 0 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
  • nums is a non-decreasing array
  • -10^9 <= target <= 10^9
Source: Modified Binary Search pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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