It is one of the challenges in Codewars, and I am supposed to write a function that will take a string and return an array, in which I can't have two consecutive identical elements. Also, the order should not change.
For example, if I pass a string
"hhhhheeeelllloooooohhheeeyyy"
array = ["h","e","l","o","h","e","y"]
var uniqueInOrder=function(iterable){
//your code here - remember iterable can be a string or an array
var unique = [];
for( var i = 0; i < iterable.length; i++) {
unique.push(iterable[i]);
}
for( var j = 0, k = 1; j < unique.length; j++, k = j + 1 ){
if(unique[j] === unique[k]){
unique.splice(k,1);
}
}
return unique;
}
"hhhhheeeeeellllloooo"
j
unique[j] === unique[k]
The second for loop
is fail because unique.length
is not constant during the run.
I think your problem can be solved like this:
var temp = iterable[0];
unique.push(iterable[0]);
for( var i = 1; i < iterable.length; i++) {
if(iterable[i] != temp) {
unique.push(iterable[i]);
temp = iterable[i];
}
}
Hope it helps!