Dsa
Monotonic Stack
Medium
Neighbor Heights
You have a list of building heights representing a skyline. For each building, determine the closest taller building to its left and how far it is. If there is no taller building, return -1 for that position.
Input Format:
- A single line containing space-separated integers representing the heights of the buildings.
Output Format:
- A single line containing space-separated integers representing the distance to the closest taller building to the left.
Example:
Input:
2 1 3 2 5
Output:
-1 1 1 2 1
Key concepts
monotonic_stackneighbor_analysisbuilding_heights
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