Discription
Given an array a
that contains only numbers in the range from 1
to a.length
, find the first duplicate number for which the second occurrence has the minimal index. In other words, if there are more than 1 duplicated numbers, return the number for which the second occurrence has a smaller index than the second occurrence of the other number does. If there are no such elements, return -1
.
Example
-
For
a = [2, 1, 3, 5, 3, 2]
, the output should befirstDuplicate(a) = 3
.There are
2
duplicates: numbers2
and3
. The second occurrence of3
has a smaller index than the second occurrence of2
does, so the answer is3
. -
For
a = [2, 2]
, the output should befirstDuplicate(a) = 2
; -
For
a = [2, 4, 3, 5, 1]
, the output should befirstDuplicate(a) = -1.
Input/Output
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[execution time limit] 0.5 seconds (cpp)
-
[input] array.integer a
Guaranteed constraints:
1 ≤ a.length ≤ 105
,1 ≤ a[i] ≤ a.length
. -
[output] integer
- The element in
a
that occurs in the array more than once and has the minimal index for its second occurrence. If there are no such elements, return-1
.
- The element in
Solution
Solution 1
int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
std::unordered_set<int> set;
for (auto ele: a) {
if (set.find(ele) != set.end()) {
return ele;
}else {
set.insert(ele);
}
}
return -1;
}
Note:
Solution 2
int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); ++i) {
int index = abs(a[i]);
if (a[index - 1] < 0) {
return index;
} else {
a[index - 1] = - a[index - 1];
}
}
return -1;
}