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Find the First Occurrence of Element

You have a sorted array of integers and a target integer. Write a function to determine the index of the first occurrence of the target in the array. If the target is not found, return -1. Your solution should be efficient with a time complexity of O(log n) using binary search. Input: - A single line containing space-separated integers representing the sorted array. - An integer as target to search for. Output: - The index of the first occurrence of the target or -1 if it is not present. Example: Input: 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 2 Output: 1

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