Given a sorted array nums, remove the duplicates in-place such that duplicates appeared at most twice and return the new length.
Do not allocate extra space for another array; you must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.
Clarification:
Confused why the returned value is an integer, but your answer is an array?
Note that the input array is passed in by reference, which means a modification to the input array will be known to the caller.
Internally you can think of this:
// nums is passed in by reference. (i.e., without making a copy) int len = removeDuplicates(nums); // any modification to nums in your function would be known by the caller. // using the length returned by your function, it prints the first len elements. for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { print(nums[i]); }
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3] Output: 5, nums = [1,1,2,2,3] Explanation: Your function should return length =5
, with the first five elements ofnums
being1, 1, 2, 2
and 3 respectively. It doesn't matter what you leave beyond the returned length.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [0,0,1,1,1,1,2,3,3] Output: 7, nums = [0,0,1,1,2,3,3] Explanation: Your function should return length =7
, with the first seven elements ofnums
being modified to0
, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 and 3 respectively. It doesn't matter what values are set beyond the returned length.
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 3 * 104
-104 <= nums[i] <= 104
nums
is sorted in ascending order.
class Solution:
def removeDuplicates(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
i = 0
for num in nums:
if i < 2 or num != nums[i - 2]:
nums[i] = num
i += 1
return i
class Solution {
public int removeDuplicates(int[] nums) {
int i = 0;
for (int num : nums) {
if (i < 2 || num != nums[i - 2]) {
nums[i++] = num;
}
}
return i;
}
}
class Solution {
public:
int removeDuplicates(vector<int>& nums) {
int i = 0;
for (int& num : nums)
if (i < 2 || num != nums[i - 2])
nums[i++] = num;
return i;
}
};
public class Solution {
public int RemoveDuplicates(int[] nums) {
int i = 0;
foreach(int num in nums)
{
if (i < 2 || num != nums[i - 2])
{
nums[i++] = num;
}
}
return i;
}
}
/**
* @param {number[]} nums
* @return {number}
*/
var removeDuplicates = function(nums) {
let i = 0;
for (const num of nums) {
if (i < 2 || num != nums[i - 2]) {
nums[i++] = num;
}
}
return i;
};
func removeDuplicates(nums []int) int {
i := 0
for _, num := range nums {
if i < 2 || num != nums[i-2] {
nums[i] = num
i++
}
}
return i
}