LC-0026 Easy LeetCode

26. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array

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Difficulty: easy Acceptance: 60% Topics: Array, Two Pointers

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Two Pointers 9 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(1)

class Solution(object):
    # @param a list of integers
    # @return an integer
    def removeDuplicates(self, A):
        if not A:
            return 0

        last = 0
        for i in xrange(len(A)):
            if A[last] != A[i]:
                last += 1
                A[last] = A[i]
        return last + 1

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT