【LeetCode】80. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II

1.题目描述

Given a sorted array nums, remove the duplicates in-place such that duplicates appeared at most twice 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.

给定一个排序数组，你需要在原地删除重复出现的元素，使得每个元素最多出现两次，返回移除后数组的新长度。

不要使用额外的数组空间，你必须在原地修改输入数组并在使用 O(1) 额外空间的条件下完成。

Example 1:

Given nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3],

Your function should return length = 5, with the first five elements of nums being 1, 1, 2, 2 and 3 respectively.

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

Example 2:

Given nums = [0,0,1,1,1,1,2,3,3],

Your function should return length = 7, with the first seven elements of nums being modified to 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 and 3 respectively.

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:

说明:

为什么返回数值是整数，但输出的答案是数组呢?

请注意，输入数组是以“引用”方式传递的，这意味着在函数里修改输入数组对于调用者是可见的。

你可以想象内部操作如下:

// nums 是以“引用”方式传递的。也就是说，不对实参做任何拷贝
int len = removeDuplicates(nums);

// 在函数里修改输入数组对于调用者是可见的。
// 根据你的函数返回的长度, 它会打印出数组中该长度范围内的所有元素。
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    print(nums[i]);
}

2.Solutions

Question wants us to return the length of new array after removing duplicates and that we don’t care about what we leave beyond new length , hence we can use i to keep track of the position and update the array.

问题要求我们在删除重复项后返回新数组的长度，并且我们不关心超出新长度的内容，因此我们可以使用i来跟踪位置并更新数组。

public static int removeDuplicates(int[] nums) {
    int i = 0;
    for (int n : nums)
        if (i < 2 || n > nums[i - 2])
            nums[i++] = n;
    return i;
}

参考：26. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array

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