Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray - Array - Easy - LeetCode
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Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray - Array - Easy - LeetCode

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  • 1The task is to find the shortest continuous subarray that, when sorted, results in the entire array being sorted.
  • 2An example input is [2, 6, 4, 8, 10, 9, 15], where sorting [6, 4, 8, 10, 9] makes the whole array sorted.
  • 3The solution has a time complexity of O(n) and a space complexity of O(n).

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"The task is to find the shortest continuous subarray that, when sorted, results in the entire array being sorted."

Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray - Array - Easy - LeetCode

Given an integer array, you need to find one continuous subarray that if you only sort this subarray in ascending order, then the whole array will be sorted in ascending order, too.

You need to find the shortest such subarray and output its length.

Example 1: Input: [2, 6, 4, 8, 10, 9, 15] Output: 5 Explanation: You need to sort [6, 4, 8, 10, 9] in ascending order to make the whole array sorted in ascending order. Note: Then the length of the input array is in the range [1, 10,000]. The input array may contain duplicates, so ascending order here means <=.

public class Solution {
 public int FindUnsortedSubarray(int[] nums) {
 var l=new int[nums.Length];
 int max = int.MinValue;
 for(int i=0;i<nums.Length;i++){ 
 if(max<nums[i]){
 max = nums[i]; 
 }
 l[i]=max;
 }
 
 var r=new int[nums.Length];
 int min = int.MaxValue;
 for(int i=nums.Length-1;i>=0;i--){ 
 if(min>nums[i]){
 min = nums[i]; 
 }
 r[i]=min; 
 }
 
 int left =0;
 for(int i=0;i<nums.Length;i++){
 if(l[i]!=r[i]){
 left = i;
 break;
 }
 }
 
 int right = 0;
 for(int i=nums.Length-1;i>=0;i--){
 if(l[i]!=r[i]){
 right = i;
 break;
 }
 }
 
 if(left == right){
 return 0;
 }
 
 return right-left+1;
 }
}

Time Complexity: O(n)

Space Complexity: O(n)

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Published on 26 September 2020 · 1 min read · 186 words

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