744. Find Smallest Letter Greater Than Target
Given a list of sorted characters letters
containing only lowercase letters, and given a target letter target
, find the smallest element in the list that is larger than the given target.
Letters also wrap around. For example, if the target is target = 'z'
and letters = ['a', 'b']
, the answer is 'a'
.
Examples:
Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "a" Output: "c" Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "c" Output: "f" Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "d" Output: "f" Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "g" Output: "j" Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "j" Output: "c" Input: letters = ["c", "f", "j"] target = "k" Output: "c"
Note:
-
letters
has a length in range[2, 10000]
. -
letters
consists of lowercase letters, and contains at least 2 unique letters. -
target
is a lowercase letter.
class Solution { public char nextGreatestLetter(char[] letters, char target) { int l = 0, r = letters.length - 1; while(l <= r) { int m = l + (r - l) / 2; if(letters[m] > target) r = m - 1; else l = m + 1; } return letters[l % letters.length]; } }
二分法,因为是wrap的,所以最后返回l % length