Java > Array-1 > makeMiddle (CodingBat Solution)

Problem:

Given an array of ints of even length, return a new array length 2 containing the middle two elements from the original array. The original array will be length 2 or more.

makeMiddle({1, 2, 3, 4}) → {2, 3}
makeMiddle({7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9}) → {2, 3}
makeMiddle({1, 2}) → {1, 2}


Solution:

public int[] makeMiddle(int[] nums) {
  return new int[]{
nums[nums.length/2 -1], nums[nums.length/2]};
}


4 comments :

  1. public int[] makeMiddle(int[] nums) {
    int mid = nums.length / 2;

    int[] middle = { nums[mid-1], nums[mid] };
    return middle;
    }

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  2. public int[] makeMiddle(int[] nums) {
    if(nums.length <= 2) return nums;
    int middleIndx = (nums.length/2)-1;
    return new int[] {nums[middleIndx],nums[middleIndx+1]};

    }

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  3. public int[] makeMiddle(int[] nums) {
    int[] newArr = new int[2];
    if (nums.length == 2)
    return nums;
    else

    newArr[0] = nums[nums.length / 2 - 1];
    newArr[1] = nums[nums.length / 2];
    return newArr;
    }

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  4. public int[] makeMiddle(int[] nums) {
    int a[]=new int[2];
    a[0]=nums[(nums.length/2)-1];
    a[1]=nums[nums.length/2];
    return a;
    }

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