581. Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray

Medium
Array
Two Pointers
Stack
Greedy
Sorting
Monotonic Stack

Description

Given an integer array nums, you need to find one continuous subarray such that if you only sort this subarray in non-decreasing order, then the whole array will be sorted in non-decreasing order.

Return the shortest such subarray and output its length.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,6,4,8,10,9,15]
Output: 5
Explanation: You need to sort [6, 4, 8, 10, 9] in ascending order to make the whole array sorted in ascending order.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: 0

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1]
Output: 0

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 104
  • -105 <= nums[i] <= 105

 

Follow up: Can you solve it in O(n) time complexity?

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