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deleting duplicates in array

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Oct 28th, 2004
hi guys......
i have a problem in writing a program of "how to delete the duplicate elements in an array"
for example....if i enter an array like:
10 20 30 40 30
then it should print:
10 20 30 40

so could plz help me out????? :cry:
i have attempted little though....but don't know how can i go ahead....

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int main(void)
{
int a[5],i,j;
clrscr();
printf("ENTER ARRAY ELEMENTS:");
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
fflush(stdin);
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
for(j=i;j<4;j++)
{

//i don't know now where do i go....from here on.....how to find the element which is repeating that is the duplicate and then how to delete that.....
so plz help me out......
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Re: deleting duplicates in array

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>could any 1 reply plz............
I was going to help you, until I saw that you bumped your thread before 30 minutes had passed. That's incredibly rude.

Try this: [Useful suggestion removed because you don't deserve it. Figure the solution out on your own]
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im really sorry but im new to this site so don't know how exactly it works...but anyways.....i don't know how to go from here on.....i did'nt understand what exactly were u trying to say......
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i have been online here for 2 hrs..almost and didn't get any reply from any1/../so i was checking on some other threads of this site....as im new to this site...so plz don't take it otherwise...and help me out.......plz with this problem......
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Re: deleting duplicates in array

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So you want to see if any of a[]'s values duplicate any OTHER of a[]'s values?

You've got a start there with the two loops, so how about something like:

for each element (that's a[i] in the first loop, say)
look through every OTHER element in the array to see if it matches; in your code fragment that would be the 'for j' loop. Something like (and I am paraphrasing, not writing compilable code here):

for i 0..5
for j 0..5
if i is not j, then if a[i] equals a[j] you have a match between the elements at i and j!

The next part is to figure out how to remove that duplicate. One simple approach is to copy the non-dups down over the dup (so if 3 is the dup, set [3] = [4] and [4] = [5]). Another approach is to have a separate array of non-duplicate values, like this:

(from the above loops, just below the close of the for j loop)

if not a duplicate, then copy a[i] over to nonDuplicates[countOfNonDuplicates] and increment the countOfNonDuplicates.
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Re: deleting duplicates in array

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Oct 29th, 2004
hi guys......
i have a problem in writing a program of "how to delete the duplicate elements in an array"
for example....if i enter an array like:
10 20 30 40 30
then it should print:
10 20 30 40

so could plz help me out?????
i have attempted little though....but don't know how can i go ahead....

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int main(void)
{
int a[5],i,j;
clrscr();
printf("ENTER ARRAY ELEMENTS:");
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
fflush(stdin);
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
for(j=i;j<4;j++)
{

//i don't know now where do i go....from here on.....how to find the element which is repeating that is the duplicate and then how to delete that.....
so plz help me out......
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Re: deleting duplicates in array

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Oct 29th, 2004
for finding out the duplicates here...first...i have done like :
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<5;j++)
{
if(a[i]==a[j])
printf("duplicate element exists:");
else
printf("duplicate elements does not exist:");
}
}
but when i run this it doesnot run properly and gives some weird output....so what do i do now?
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help me out guys plzzz!!!!!!! im waiting for ur reply....any kind of help would be highly appreciable.......
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Re: deleting duplicates in array

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You don't say what kind of 'weird output' you get, but I imagine it always finds duplicates, because there will always be an a[i] == a[j] unless you say "if ((i !=j) && (a[i] == a[j]))"

By the way, I tend to look at this site once or twice a day, and I imagine others do as well, so waiting 36 minutes for a reply and then being impatient with us is expecting a lot. Remember, we do this for fun and not for money!
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