May Leetcode Challenge

Given two lists of closed intervals, each list of intervals is pairwise disjoint and in sorted order.

Return the intersection of these two interval lists.

(Formally, a closed interval [a, b] (with a <= b) denotes the set of real numbers x with a <= x <= b. The intersection of two closed intervals is a set of real numbers that is either empty, or can be represented as a closed interval. For example, the intersection of [1, 3] and [2, 4] is [2, 3].)

Example 1:

Input: A = [[0,2],[5,10],[13,23],[24,25]], B = [[1,5],[8,12],[15,24],[25,26]]
Output: [[1,2],[5,5],[8,10],[15,23],[24,24],[25,25]]
Reminder: The inputs and the desired output are lists of Interval objects, and not arrays or lists.

Note:

0 <= A.length < 1000
0 <= B.length < 1000
0 <= A[i].start, A[i].end, B[i].start, B[i].end < 10^9

NOTE: input types have been changed on April 15, 2019. Please reset to default code definition to get new method signature.

Solution

Because two arrays are sorted, we can do a straight check.
Compare one in A by one in B, move to next element when current element's head is lower.

class Solution {
    func intervalIntersection(_ A: [[Int]], _ B: [[Int]]) -> [[Int]] {
        var moving: Int = 0
        
        var indexA = 0
        var indexB = 0
        
        var res = [[Int]]()

        while (indexA < A.count) && (indexB < B.count) {
            let valA = A[indexA]
            let valB = B[indexB]
            
            if let intersection = valA.intersectionWith(valB) {
                res.append(intersection)
            }
            
            if valA[1] > valB[1] {
                indexB += 1
            }else{
                indexA += 1
            }
        }

        return res
    }
}

extension Array where Element == Int {
    func intersectionWith(_ range: [Int]) -> [Int]?{
        if self[1] < range[0] || self[0] > range[1] {
            return nil
        }
        return [self[0] >= range[0] ? self[0] : range[0], self[1] <= range[1] ? self[1] : range[1]]
    }
}

May Leetcode Challenge - Day 23

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