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Insert New Interval

by Pawan Kumar @jsartisan

Given:

• Array of non-overlapping intervals intervals where intervals[i] = [start_i, end_i]
• A new interval newInterval = [start, end]
• intervals is sorted by start time

Insert newInterval into intervals such that:

• Result remains sorted by start time
• No overlapping intervals (merge if needed)
• Return the resulting intervals array

Constraints:

• 0 ≤ intervals.length ≤ 1000
• newInterval.length == intervals[i].length == 2
• 0 ≤ start ≤ end ≤ 1000

Examples:

// Example 1:
console.log(
  insert(
    [
      [1, 3],
      [4, 6],
    ],
    [2, 5],
  ),
);
// Output: [[1,6]]
// Explanation: [2,5] overlaps with both intervals

// Example 2:
console.log(
  insert(
    [
      [1, 2],
      [3, 5],
      [9, 10],
    ],
    [6, 7],
  ),
);
// Output: [[1,2],[3,5],[6,7],[9,10]]
// Explanation: [6,7] fits between existing intervals