DIY: Insert Interval

Solve the interview question "Insert Interval" in this lesson.

Problem statement

For this problem, you are given a list of non-overlapping intervals, and you need to insert another interval into the list. The output should contain a list of mutually exclusive intervals.

Input

The function has two inputs. The first input is a list of lists representing the list of intervals. The nested lists contain two integers representing the starting and ending time of the intervals. The second input is a list of two integers representing the new interval to be inserted. The following is an example input:

[[1, 3], [4, 5], [7, 9], [9, 15], [10, 14]] 
[2, 8]

Output

The output is the list of intervals after inserting the new interval. The following is an example output:

[[1, 9], [9, 15], [10, 14]]

Coding exercise

You need to implement the function insertInterval(intervals, newInterval), where intervals is the list of intervals and newInterval is the interval to be inserted. The function returns a list of intervals after the insertion of the new interval.

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