POTD- 02/11/2023 | Minimum distance between two numbers | Problem of the Day GeeksforGeeks

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[@saimani6410]

Can't we do using two pointers

[@Sayan_Shankhari]

Sliding window?

[@prateekbhaisora]

A cleaner code:
int minDist(int arr[], int n, int x, int y) {
int indx = -1, indy = -1;
int ans = n+1;
for (int i=0; i

[@abhishekupadhyay9962]

int minDist(int a[], int n, int x, int y) {
// code here
int prev = -1;
int minDist = INT_MAX;
for(int i=0;i