/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.github.pedrovgs.problem31;

/**
 * Given an array full of integers, can you write a method to find the length of the longest
 * consecutive sequence inside the array?
 *
 * @author Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 */
public class FindLongestConsecutiveSequence {
  public int find(int[] array) {
    return 0;
  }
}

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.github.pedrovgs.problem31;

/**
 * Given an array full of integers, can you write a method to find the length of the longest
 * consecutive sequence inside the array?
 *
 * @author Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 */
public class FindLongestConsecutiveSequence {

  /**
   * Iterative solution for this algorithm. This algorithm is based on a double pointer at the
   * start and end of the sequence and the complexity order in time terms is O(N) where N is the
   * number of elements in the array. In space terms, the complexity order is O(1) because we are
   * not using any additional data structure to keep the result.
   */
  public int find(int[] numbers) {
    if (numbers == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("You can't pass a null array as input.");
    }
    if (numbers.length == 0) {
      return 0;
    }

    int result = 0;
    int start = 0, end = 0;
    for (int i = 1; i < numbers.length; i++) {
      if (numbers[i - 1] < numbers[i]) {
        end = i;
      } else {
        start = i;
      }
      if (end - start > result) {
        result = end - start;
      }
    }
    return result + 1;
  }
}

Add iterative solution to problem31
Add iterative solution to problem31
