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209. Minimum Size Subarray Sum

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Problem Statement

209. Minimum Size Subarray Sum

Medium


Given an array of positive integers nums and a positive integer target, return the minimal length of a subarray whose sum is greater than or equal to target. If there is no such subarray, return 0 instead.

 

Example 1:

Input: target = 7, nums = [2,3,1,2,4,3]
Output: 2
Explanation: The subarray [4,3] has the minimal length under the problem constraint.

Example 2:

Input: target = 4, nums = [1,4,4]
Output: 1

Example 3:

Input: target = 11, nums = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]
Output: 0

 

Constraints:

 

Follow up: If you have figured out the O(n) solution, try coding another solution of which the time complexity is O(n log(n)).

C++

Source file
class Solution {
public:
    int minSubArrayLen(int target, vector<int>& nums) {
        int ans=INT_MAX, runningSum=0, start=0, end=0;
        bool valid = false;
        for(; end<nums.size();){
            runningSum+=nums[end++];
            while(runningSum>=target){
                valid = true;
                ans = min(ans, end-start);
                runningSum-=nums[start++];
            }
        }
        return valid?ans:0;
    }
};