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Removes duplicated values on an array.
Created: 2005.08.13 - Modified 2005.11.19

//+ Carlos R. L. Rodrigues
//@ http://jsfromhell.com/array/remove-duplicated [rev. #3]

removeDuplicated = function(a, s){
    var p, i, j;
    if(s) for(i = a.length; i > 1;){
        if(a[--i] === a[i - 1]){
            for(p = i - 1; p-- && a[i] === a[p];);
            i -= a.splice(p + 1, i - p - 1).length;
        }
    }
    else for(i = a.length; i;){
        for(p = --i; p > 0;)
            if(a[i] === a[--p]){
                for(j = p; p-- && a[i] === a[p];);
                i -= a.splice(p + 1, j - p).length;
            }
    }
    return a;
};

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

a = [0,1,4,1,2,3,5,5,3,7,0,6,0,1];
b = a.slice().sort();

document.write(
    "<h2>Matriz desordenada</h2>A = ", a.join(","),
    "<br />removeDuplicated(A) = ", removeDuplicated(a),
    "<br /><h2>Matriz pr?-ordenada</h2>B = ", b.join(","),
    "<br />removeDuplicated(B, true) = ", removeDuplicated(b, true)
);

//]]>
</script>

removeDuplicated(vector: Array, [sorted: Boolean = false]): Array

Returns an array without the duplicated values.

vector

array that will be analyzed

sorted

pass true only if the array is already sorted, to obtain better performance

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