Welcome to this unit's coding session! We're going to take a deep dive into an exciting technique — the two-pointer technique. This technique is a crucial skill for enhancing your algorithmic problem-solving abilities, especially when dealing with arrays. In this unit, we'll apply this technique to a problem that involves an array of integers and a target value. Let's get started!
Envision the problem at hand: we've been given an array of distinct integers and a target value. The task is to find all pairs of integers from the given array that sum up to the target value using the two-pointer technique. The function findPairs
should take this array of integers and a target value as parameters. It should return a MutableList
containing Pair
of numbers, sorted in ascending order by the first element of each pair. If no pairs satisfy this requirement, the function should return an empty MutableList
.
Consider, for instance, an example in which you're given an array, val numbers = intArrayOf(1, 3, 5, 2, 8, -2)
, and target = 6
. In this case, the function should return [( -2, 8 ), ( 1, 5 )]
because only these pairs from the input array of integers add up to the target value.
The naive approach to solve this problem would be to use a pair of nested loops to check each pair of numbers.
