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1975 Minimum Distance To The Target Element

1975 Minimum Distance To The Target Element

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Given an integer array nums (0-indexed) and two integers target and start, find an index i such that nums[i] == target and abs(i - start) is minimized. Note that abs(x) is the absolute value of x.

Return abs(i - start).

It is guaranteed that target exists in nums.

 

Example 1:

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**Input:** nums = [1,2,3,4,5], target = 5, start = 3
**Output:** 1
**Explanation:** nums[4] = 5 is the only value equal to target, so the answer is abs(4 - 3) = 1.

Example 2:

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**Input:** nums = [1], target = 1, start = 0
**Output:** 0
**Explanation:** nums[0] = 1 is the only value equal to target, so the answer is abs(0 - 0) = 0.

Example 3:

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**Input:** nums = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1], target = 1, start = 0
**Output:** 0
**Explanation:** Every value of nums is 1, but nums[0] minimizes abs(i - start), which is abs(0 - 0) = 0.

 

Constraints:

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1 <= nums.length <= 1000
1 <= nums[i] <= 104
0 <= start < nums.length
target is in nums.
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use itertools::enumerate;
impl Solution {
    pub fn get_min_distance(nums: Vec<i32>, target: i32, start: i32) -> i32 {
        
        let mut res = 100000;
        for (i, k) in enumerate(nums.clone()) {
            if k == target {
                if (i as i32-start).abs() < res {
                    res = (i as i32-start).abs();
                }
            }
            
        }
        res
    }
}



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