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759. Employee Free Time (Hard)

We are given a list schedule of employees, which represents the working time for each employee.

Each employee has a list of non-overlapping Intervals, and these intervals are in sorted order.

Return the list of finite intervals representing common, positive-length free time for all employees, also in sorted order.

Example 1:

Input: schedule = [[[1,2],[5,6]],[[1,3]],[[4,10]]]
Output: [[3,4]]
Explanation:
There are a total of three employees, and all common
free time intervals would be [-inf, 1], [3, 4], [10, inf].
We discard any intervals that contain inf as they aren't finite.

 

Example 2:

Input: schedule = [[[1,3],[6,7]],[[2,4]],[[2,5],[9,12]]]
Output: [[5,6],[7,9]]

 

(Even though we are representing Intervals in the form [x, y], the objects inside are Intervals, not lists or arrays. For example, schedule[0][0].start = 1, schedule[0][0].end = 2, and schedule[0][0][0] is not defined.)

Also, we wouldn't include intervals like [5, 5] in our answer, as they have zero length.

Note:

1. schedule and schedule[i] are lists with lengths in range [1, 50].
2. 0 <= schedule[i].start < schedule[i].end <= 10^8.

NOTE: input types have been changed on June 17, 2019. Please reset to default code definition to get new method signature.

 

Related Topics

[Array] [Sorting] [Heap (Priority Queue)]

Similar Questions

1. Merge Intervals (Medium)
2. Interval List Intersections (Medium)

Hints

Hint 1

Take all the intervals and do an "events" (or "line sweep") approach - an event of (x, OPEN) increases the number of active intervals, while (x, CLOSE) decreases it.

Processing in sorted order from left to right, if the number of active intervals is zero, then you crossed a region of common free time.