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Practice #5

Lesson 14 of 14 in Coddy's Doubly Linked List - Data Structures Series #6 course.

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Given a sorted integer array arr (the values of a sorted doubly linked list) and an integer target, write a function countPairs that returns the number of pairs of indices (i, j) with i < j and arr[i] + arr[j] == target.

Assume the input contains no duplicate values.

Use a doubly linked list to solve this problem! Two pointers from both ends, moving inward.

You must use the DoublyLinkedList class (provided in doublylinkedlist.<ext> along with node.<ext>) — do not use language built-ins like arrays' reverse, slicing, sort, or stdlib list operations to compute the result.

Try it yourself

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "solution.h"

int main() {
    char line1[8192];
    char line2[64];
    if (!fgets(line1, sizeof(line1), stdin)) line1[0] = '\0';
    if (!fgets(line2, sizeof(line2), stdin)) line2[0] = '\0';
    int arr[4096];
    int len = 0;
    char* tok = strtok(line1, " \t\r\n");
    while (tok) { arr[len++] = atoi(tok); tok = strtok(NULL, " \t\r\n"); }
    int n = atoi(line2);
    int r = countPairs(arr, len, n);
printf("%d\n", r);
    return 0;
}

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