题目链接
tag:

• Medium；

question：
  Write an efficient algorithm that searches for a value in an m x n matrix. This matrix has the following properties:

• Integers in each row are sorted from left to right.
• The first integer of each row is greater than the last integer of the previous row.

Example 1:

Input:
matrix = [
[1, 3, 5, 7],
[10, 11, 16, 20],
[23, 30, 34, 50]
]
target = 3
Output: true

Example 2:

Input:
matrix = [
[1, 3, 5, 7],
[10, 11, 16, 20],
[23, 30, 34, 50]
]
target = 13
Output: false

思路：
  如果我们按S型遍历该二维数组，可以得到一个有序的一维数组，那么我们可以用一次二分查找法，而关键就在于坐标的转换，如何把二维坐标和一维坐标转换是关键点，把一个长度为n的一维数组转化为mn的二维数组(mn = n)后，那么原一维数组中下标为i的元素将出现在二维数组中的[i/n][i%n]的位置，有了这一点，代码很好写出来了：

// binary search
class Solution {
public:
    bool searchMatrix(vector<vector<int> > &matrix, int target) {
        if (matrix.empty() || matrix[0].empty()) return false;
        if (target < matrix[0][0] || target > matrix.back().back()) return false;
        int m = matrix.size(), n = matrix[0].size();
        int left = 0, right = m * n - 1;
        while (left <= right) {
            int mid = (left + right) / 2;
            if (matrix[mid / n][mid % n] == target) return true;
            else if (matrix[mid / n][mid % n] < target) left = mid + 1;
            else right = mid - 1;
        }
        return false;
    }
};

延伸：
  倘若没有下一行的开头大于本行的最后一个元素的条件，则可以每次去掉一行或者一列逐步筛选，其实也是二分思想，代码如下：

class Solution {
public:
    bool searchMatrix(vector<vector<int>>& matrix, int target) {
        if (matrix.empty() || matrix[0].empty()) return false;
        int m = matrix.size() - 1, n = matrix[0].size() - 1;
        int row = 0, col = n;
        while (row <= m && col >= 0) {
            if (matrix[row][col] == target) return true;
            else if (matrix[row][col] < target) ++row;
            else --col;
        }
        return false;
    }
};