/** * File: binary_search_edge.js * Created Time: 2023-08-22 * Author: Gaofer Chou (gaofer-chou@qq.com) */ const { binarySearchInsertion } = require('./binary_search_insertion.js'); /* Find the leftmost occurrence of target using binary search */ function binarySearchLeftEdge(nums, target) { // This is equivalent to finding the insertion point of target const i = binarySearchInsertion(nums, target); // If target was not found, return -1 if (i === nums.length || nums[i] !== target) { return -1; } // Target was found; return index i return i; } /* Find the rightmost occurrence of target using binary search */ function binarySearchRightEdge(nums, target) { // Reduce the problem to finding the leftmost insertion point of target + 1 const i = binarySearchInsertion(nums, target + 1); // j points to the rightmost target, while i points to the first element greater than target const j = i - 1; // If target was not found, return -1 if (j === -1 || nums[j] !== target) { return -1; } // Target was found; return index j return j; } /* Driver code */ // Array containing duplicate elements const nums = [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 12, 15]; console.log('\nArray nums = ' + nums); // Find the left and right boundaries using binary search for (const target of [6, 7]) { let index = binarySearchLeftEdge(nums, target); console.log('Leftmost occurrence of ' + target + ' has index ' + index); index = binarySearchRightEdge(nums, target); console.log('Rightmost occurrence of ' + target + ' has index ' + index); }