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Program to remove duplicates from a sorted array

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by admin

Overview

The objective is to remove duplicates from a sorted array.

Examples

Input: [1, 1, 1, 2]
Output: [1, 2]

Input: [1, 2, 3, 3]
Output: [1, 2, 3]

Program

Below is the program for the same

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	input := []int{1, 1, 1, 2}
	output := removeDuplicates(input)
	fmt.Println(output)

	input = []int{1, 2, 3, 3}
	output = removeDuplicates(input)
	fmt.Println(output)
}

func removeDuplicates(nums []int) []int {
	lenArray := len(nums)

	k := 0
	for i := 0; i < lenArray; {
		nums[k] = nums[i]
		k++
		for i+1 < lenArray && nums[i] == nums[i+1] {
			i++
		}
		i++
	}

	return nums[0:k]
}

Output

[1 2]
[1 2 3]
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