Given a binary array nums, return the maximum number of consecutive 1's in the array.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,1,0,1,1,1]
Output: 3
Explanation: The first two digits or the last three digits are consecutive 1s. The maximum number of consecutive 1s is 3.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,0,1,1,0,1]
Output: 2
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 105
nums[i] is either 0 or 1.
Solutions
Solution 1: Single Pass
We can iterate through the array, using a variable \(\textit{cnt}\) to record the current number of consecutive 1s, and another variable \(\textit{ans}\) to record the maximum number of consecutive 1s.
When we encounter a 1, we increment \(\textit{cnt}\) by one, and then update \(\textit{ans}\) to be the maximum of \(\textit{cnt}\) and \(\textit{ans}\) itself, i.e., \(\textit{ans} = \max(\textit{ans}, \textit{cnt})\). Otherwise, we reset \(\textit{cnt}\) to 0.
After the iteration ends, we return the value of \(\textit{ans}\).
The time complexity is \(O(n)\), where \(n\) is the length of the array. The space complexity is \(O(1)\).