27. Remove Element（去掉指定元素）

Given an array nums and a value val, 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 1:

Given nums = [3,2,2,3], val = 3,

Your function should return length = 2, with the first two elements of nums being 2.

It doesn’t matter what you leave beyond the returned length.

给一个数组和一个指定值val，让在数组中原地去掉（也就是替换掉指定的值val），返回长度，不需要考虑长度外的元素，而且可以不保留原有元素的顺序

思路：
双指针，一个指向要替换的位置，一个向前走到替换它的元素，即用val之外的值替换val

    public int removeElement(int[] nums, int val) {
        if(nums == null || nums.length == 0) {
            return 0;
        }
        int index = -1;
        
        for(int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            if(nums[i] != val) {
                index ++;
                //自己和自己交换，相当于不变
                nums[index] = nums[i];
            }
        }
        return (index + 1);
    }