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Employee ID Search

You are given a sorted list of unique employee IDs in a company. Develop a program that finds the index of a specified employee ID. If the ID does not exist in the list, return the index at which it can be inserted while maintaining the sorted order. Input Format: - The first line contains a space-separated list of integers (employee IDs). - The second line contains a single integer (the target employee ID). Output Format: - A single integer representing the index of the target ID or the position it can be inserted. Example: Input: 1001 1005 1010 1020 1035 1007 Output: 2

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