From 97c77d56411239bf25e1f8ac34027aafec267d86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sangeeth Sudheer <sangeeth96@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 22:12:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] feat(1-two-sum): add golang two stop soln

---
 .../golang/two-sum-two-stop-approach.go       | 65 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 0001_two-sum/golang/two-sum-two-stop-approach.go

diff --git a/0001_two-sum/golang/two-sum-two-stop-approach.go b/0001_two-sum/golang/two-sum-two-stop-approach.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bff4a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001_two-sum/golang/two-sum-two-stop-approach.go
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import "sort"
+
+type customSort struct {
+	nums    []int
+	indices []int
+}
+
+func (c customSort) Len() int {
+	return len(c.nums)
+}
+
+func (c customSort) Swap(i, j int) {
+	c.indices[i], c.indices[j] = c.indices[j], c.indices[i]
+}
+
+func (c customSort) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	oi := c.indices[i]
+	oj := c.indices[j]
+
+	return c.nums[oi] < c.nums[oj]
+}
+
+func twoSum(nums []int, target int) []int {
+	// Alternate solution: using two stops
+	// Make a slice containing indices to the original array
+	si := make([]int, len(nums))
+
+	for i, _ := range nums {
+		si[i] = i
+	}
+
+	// Sort the slice of indices in ascending order. This hackery
+	// is needed because that's how Go's custom sorting is implemented
+	sort.Sort(customSort{
+		nums:    nums,
+		indices: si,
+	})
+
+	lc := 0
+	rc := len(si) - 1
+
+	for lc < rc {
+		// Remember: si[lc] gives me the "index to original slice",
+		// which I can then use to get the left stop's value. Similarly
+		// get the right stop value.
+		l := nums[si[lc]]
+		r := nums[si[rc]]
+
+		if l+r == target {
+			return []int{si[lc], si[rc]}
+		}
+
+		// Remember: if this is less, then we need to "increase the value" of
+		// l + r. Since we are traversing in the sorted array, this can only
+		// mean one thing — we increase the left stop
+		if l+r < target {
+			lc++
+		} else {
+			rc--
+		}
+	}
+
+	// If we reach here, basically we didn't find the target
+	return []int{}
+}
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