Longest increasing subsequence.c

// Returns the length of the longest increasing subsequence. // Note that this is looking for the longest strictly increasing subsequence. //   This can be easily modified for other situations. int lcs( int* a, int N ) { int *best, *prev, i, j, max = 0; best = (int*) malloc ( sizeof( int ) * N ); prev = (int*) malloc ( sizeof( int ) * N );

for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ ) best[i] = 1, prev[i] = i;

for ( i = 1; i < N; i++ ) for ( j = 0; j < i; j++ ) if ( a[i] > a[j] && best[i] < best[j] + 1 ) best[i] = best[j] + 1, prev[i] = j; // Larry!! what's prev[i] for?!

for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ ) if ( max < best[i] ) max = best[i];

free( best ); free( prev );

return max; }

// Sample usage. int main{ int b[] = { 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6 }; // the longest increasing subsequence = 13456? // the length would be 5, as well lcs(b,8) will return. printf("%d\n", lcs( b, 8 ) ); }