Day 1 - Remove Duplicates From Sorted Array- Leetcode Problem Solved
#I4G10DaysOfCodeChallenge - Day 1
The Task
Given an integer array nums
sorted in non-decreasing order, remove the duplicates in-place such that each unique element appears only once. The relative order of the elements should be kept the same.
Since it is impossible to change the length of the array in some languages, you must instead have the result be placed in the first part of the array nums
. More formally, if there are k
elements after removing the duplicates, then the first k
elements of nums
should hold the final result. It does not matter what you leave beyond the first k
elements.
Return k
after placing the final result in the first k
slots of nums
.
Do not allocate extra space for another array. You must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.
Do not allocate extra space for another array. You must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.
Thought Process
- Initialized a variable, setting its value to zero (0). Let's call this variable "test".
- Iterating through the array while checking if the present iteration is same as the element at
array[test]
- By running this check and reinitialising the element at the right index, we eliminate duplicates in the array
I understand that this is probably not explanatory (I'm really sorry about it really). Working on being better in explaining the code I write.