Friday, June 16, 2017

Maximum Subarray

Find the contiguous subarray within an array (containing at least one number) which has the largest sum.
For example, given the array [-2,1,-3,4,-1,2,1,-5,4],
the contiguous subarray [4,-1,2,1] has the largest sum = 6.

class Solution {
public:
    int maxSubArray(vector<int>& nums) {
        int size = nums.size();
        int sum = 0, maxSum = nums[0];
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            if (sum < 0) {
                sum = nums[i];
            } else {
                sum += nums[i];
            }
            maxSum = max(maxSum, sum);
        }
        return maxSum;
    }
};