Saturday, November 12, 2011
My Favorite Javascript Method for Removing Array Duplicates
var dedup = function(a)
{
var b = [], //create a replacement array
i=a.sort().length; //get the dups together
while(i--) //loop down the original array
{
// they are bunched, so copy only non matches
if(a[i]!==a[i-1])
{
b[b.length] = a[i];
}
}
return b; // return the replacement array
}
// test it
console.log('Original Array: bob,sally,9,sally,george,george,andrew,23,230,\'23\'\n' + 'Deduped Array:'+ dedup(['bob','sally',9,'sally','george','george','andrew',23,230,'23']));
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