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Remove Duplicate Elements from an Array
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The program is written here to remove the duplicate elements from an array and then rearrange the elements of the array and display it. For rearranging any sorting algorithm can be used but for the simplicity of the program bubble sort technique is used.
For example, let the array be:
12 | 15 | 52 | 12 | 34 | 52 | 36 |
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
After removing the duplicate elements the array will be:
12 | 15 | 52 | 34 | 36 |
0 1 2 3 4
After removing duplicate elements the array will be sorted and the final array will be:
12 | 15 | 34 | 36 | 52 |
Algorithm
INPUT: The array elements
OUTPUT: Array elements after sorting and rearranging
PROCESS:
Step 1: [Taking the inputs]
Read n [number of elements]
For i=0 to n-1 repeat
Read a[i]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
Step 2: [Function to remove duplicate elements]
For i = 0 to n-1 repeat
For j = i+1 to n-1 repeat
If a[j] = a[i] then
For k = j to n-1 repeat
Set a[k] <- a[k+1]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
Set n<-n-1
[End of ‘if’]
Else
Set j<-j+1
[End of ‘else’]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
[Rearranging the array elements]
For i=0 to n-1 repeat
For j=0 to n-i-2 repeat
If a[j]>a[j+1] then
Set t<-a[j]
Set a[j]<-a[j+1]
Set a[j+1]<-t
[End of ‘if’]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
[Displaying the array after removing the duplicates]
Print "The array after removing the duplicates and rearranging is: "
For i = 0 to n-1 repeat
Print a[i]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
Step 3: Stop.
Code
TIME COMPLEXITY:
The time complexity of this program is O(n3) where ‘n’ is the number of elements of the array.
SPACE COMPLEXITY:
The space complexity of this program O(n) where ‘n’ is the number of elements of the array
