Length of the largest subarray with contiguous elements | Set 1

Given an array of distinct integers, find length of the longest subarray which contains numbers that can be arranged in a continuous sequence.

Examples:

Input:  arr[] = {10, 12, 11};
Output: Length of the longest contiguous subarray is 3

Input:  arr[] = {14, 12, 11, 20};
Output: Length of the longest contiguous subarray is 2

Input:  arr[] = {1, 56, 58, 57, 90, 92, 94, 93, 91, 45};
Output: Length of the longest contiguous subarray is 5

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The important thing to note in question is, it is given that all elements are distinct. If all elements are distinct, then a subarray has contiguous elements if and only if the difference between maximum and minimum elements in subarray is equal to the difference between last and first indexes of subarray. So the idea is to keep track of minimum and maximum element in every subarray.

The following is C++ implementation of above idea.

#include<iostream> using namespace std;   // Utility functions to find minimum and maximum of // two elements int min(int x, int y) { return (x < y)? x : y; } int max(int x, int y) { return (x > y)? x : y; }   // Returns length of the longest contiguous subarray int findLength(int arr[], int n) {     int max_len = 1;  // Initialize result     for (int i=0; i<n-1; i++)     {         // Initialize min and max for all subarrays starting with i         int mn = arr[i], mx = arr[i];           // Consider all subarrays starting with i and ending with j         for (int j=i+1; j<n; j++)         {             // Update min and max in this subarray if needed             mn = min(mn, arr[j]);             mx = max(mx, arr[j]);               // If current subarray has all contiguous elements             if ((mx - mn) == j-i)                 max_len = max(max_len, mx-mn+1);         }     }     return max_len;  // Return result }   // Driver program to test above function int main() {     int arr[] = {1, 56, 58, 57, 90, 92, 94, 93, 91, 45};     int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);     cout << "Length of the longest contiguous subarray is "          << findLength(arr, n);     return 0; }

Output:

Length of the longest contiguous subarray is 5

Time Complexity of the above solution is O(n2).