Follow up for “Remove Duplicates”:
What if duplicates are allowed at most twice?
For example,
Given sorted array A = [1,1,1,2,2,3]
,
Your function should return length = 5
, and A is now [1,1,2,2,3]
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这道题是之前那道 Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array 有序数组中去除重复项 的延续,这里允许最多重复的次数是两次,那么我们就需要用一个变量count来记录还允许有几次重复,count初始化为1,如果出现过一次重复,则count递减1,那么下次再出现重复,快指针直接前进一步,如果这时候不是重复的,则count恢复1,由于整个数组是有序的,所以一旦出现不重复的数,则一定比这个数大,此数之后不会再有重复项。理清了上面的思路,则代码很好写了:
class Solution { public: int removeDuplicates(int A[], int n) { if (n <= 2) return n; int pre = 0, cur = 1, count = 1; while (cur < n) { if (A[pre] == A[cur] && count == 0) ++cur; else { if (A[pre] == A[cur]) --count; else count = 1; A[++pre] = A[cur++]; } } return pre + 1; } };