Merge pull request #487 from vincent102416849/master

Find span of an array

Author: amritansh22

find_span_of_an_array.cpp

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+#include <iostream>
+using namespace std;
+
+void calculate_span(int* inputArrayPtr, int inputArraySize, int* outputArrayPtr) {
+	outputArrayPtr[0] = 1;
+	int i, counter;
+	for (i = 1; i < inputArraySize; i++) {
+		counter = 1;
+		while ((i - counter) >= 0 && inputArrayPtr[i] >= inputArrayPtr[i - counter])
+			counter += outputArrayPtr[i - counter];
+		outputArrayPtr[i] = counter;
+	}
+}
+
+void get_input(int** inputPtr, int* inputSize) {
+	cout << "What is the size of the input array? ";
+	cin >> *inputSize;
+	*inputPtr = (int*) malloc(*inputSize);
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < *inputSize; i++) {
+		cout << "Index " << i << " value: ";
+		cin >> (*inputPtr)[i];
+	}
+}
+
+void print_output(int* outputPtr, int outputSize) {
+	int i;
+	cout << "[";
+	for (i = 0; i < outputSize - 1; i++)
+		cout << outputPtr[i] << ",";
+	cout << outputPtr[outputSize - 1] << "]" << endl;
+}
+
+int main() {
+	int* inputPtr;
+	int inputSize;
+	int* outputPtr;
+	get_input(&inputPtr, &inputSize);
+	calculate_span(inputPtr, inputSize, outputPtr);
+	print_output(outputPtr, inputSize);
+}
+