LeetCode26. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array（C++/Python）

Given a sorted array nums, remove the duplicates in-place such that each element appear only once 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.

Example 1:

Given nums = [1,1,2],

Your function should return length = 2, with the first two elements of nums being 1and 2 respectively.It doesn't matter what you leave beyond the returned length.

Example 2:

Given nums = [0,0,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4],
Your function should return length = 5, with the first five elements of nums being modified to 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4respectively.It doesn't matter what values are set beyond the returned length.

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 modification to the input array will be known to the caller as well.

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]);
}

双指针法，前面的指针遍历，后面的指针指向有效的不重复的值

C++

class Solution {
public:
    int removeDuplicates(vector<int>& nums) {
        int cnt=0,i=0;
        while(i<nums.size()){
            nums[cnt]=nums[i];
            while(i<nums.size()&&nums[i]==nums[cnt])
                i++;
            cnt++;
        }    
        return cnt;
    }
};

Python

class Solution(object):
    def removeDuplicates(self, nums):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        cnt = 0
        for i in range(len(nums)):
            if i != 0 and nums[i] == nums[i-1]:
                continue
            nums[cnt] = nums[i]
            cnt += 1
        return cnt