Pages

Friday, July 25, 2025

Binary Search in a Sorted Array in C++

 #include <iostream>

using namespace std;




int binarySearch(int arr[], int key, int n) {

    int si = 0; 

    int ei = n-1;

    

    while(si <= ei) {

        int mid = si + (ei-si)/2;

        

        if(arr[mid] == key) {

            return mid;

            

        } else if(arr[mid] < key) {

            si = mid+1; // go to right

        }  else {

            ei = mid-1; // go to left

        }

        

    }

    

    return -1;

    

}


void printArr(int arr[], int n) {

    for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {

        cout << arr[i] << " ";

        

    }

    cout << endl;

}

int main() {

    // binarySearch works on sorted array:

    // O(logn) -> binary -> divide

    

    

    int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(int);

    int key = 4; 

    cout << "Array : ";

    

    printArr(arr, n);

    

    cout << "Element: " << key << " \nFound at index: " <<  binarySearch(arr, key, n);

    


    return 0;

}

No comments:

Post a Comment

Binary Search in a Sorted Array in C++

 #include <iostream> using namespace std; int binarySearch(int arr[], int key, int n) {     int si = 0;      int ei = n-1;          wh...