27. Remove Element

27. Remove Element

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Discription:

Given an array and a value, remove all instances of that value in place and return the new length.

Do not allocate extra space for another array, you must do this in place with constant memory.

The order of elements can be changed. It doesn’t matter what you leave beyond the new length.

Example:
Given input array nums = [3,2,2,3], val = 3

Your function should return length = 2, with the first two elements of nums being 2.

Analyze:

Code 1 :

class Solution(object):
    def removeElement(self, nums, val):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type val: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        i=0
        while i<len(nums):
            if nums[i]==val:
                nums.pop(i)
                i-=1
            i+=1
        return len(nums)        

Submission Result:

Status: Accepted
Runtime: 72 ms
Ranking: beats 5.50%

Code 2 :

class Solution(object):
    def removeElement(self, nums, val):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type val: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        p1,p2=0,len(nums)-1
        if p2<1 and val in nums:
            return 0
        while p1<=p2:
            if nums[p2]==val:
                p2-=1
                continue
            elif nums[p1]!=val:
                p1+=1
                continue
            else:
                nums[p1],nums[p2]=nums[p2],nums[p1]
        return p2+1        

Submission Result:

Status: Accepted
Runtime: 64 ms
Ranking: beats 18.83%