27.Remove Element

Description

Given an array and a value, remove all instances of that value in-place 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.
The order of elements can be changed. It doesn’t matter what you leave beyond the new length.
Example:
Given nums = [3,2,2,3], val = 3,
Your function should return length = 2, with the first two elements of nums being 2.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
    int removeElement(vector<int>& nums,int val) {
        int i = 0;
        int j = 0;
        for(i = 0; i < nums.size(); i++) {
         if(nums[i] == val) {
          continue;
        }
        nums[j++] = nums[i];
     }
     return j;
    }
};

Analysis

这道题的大意是在一个数组中移除指定的val，结果返回新的数组长度。解题的思路是设置两个浮标i与j，刚开始i与j都指向第一个元素。执行循环，当遇到val时，使用j记录位置，i递增，直到遇到非val时，将i对应的非val值复制到j的位置上，j加1。重复上述过程直到循环结束。