Practice Problem

Search in Rotated Sorted Array

Difficulty: Medium

Search for a target value in a rotated sorted array of unique integers, returning its index or -1 if not found, in O(log n) time.

Search in Rotated Sorted Array

There is an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values). Prior to being passed to your function, nums is possibly rotated at an unknown pivot index k (1 <= k < nums.length) such that the resulting array is [nums[k], nums[k+1], ..., nums[n-1], nums[0], nums[1], ..., nums[k-1]] (0-indexed).

Given the array nums after the possible rotation and an integer target, return the index of target if it is in nums, or -1 if it is not in nums.

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

Examples

Example 1:

Input: nums = [4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2], target = 0
Output: 4

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2], target = 3
Output: -1

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1], target = 0
Output: -1

Constraints

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 5000
  • -10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4
  • All values of nums are unique.
  • nums is an ascending array that is possibly rotated.
  • -10^4 <= target <= 10^4

Expected Complexity

  • Time: O(log n)
  • Space: O(1)
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Binary Search
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