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thv20
thv20

Reputation: 978

Remove multidimensional duplicate arrays

This question comes up a lot, but my specific situation appears not to be covered by any SO answers I've reviewed.

I have a multidimensional array with some duplicate arrays which I'd like to remove.

[
    [8, 12],
    [8, 17],
    [8, 92],
    [8, 12]
]

[8, 12] appears twice. How can I remove this duplicate?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Chaos
Chaos

Reputation: 382

What about the following:

var array1 = [[8,12],[8,17],[8,92],[8,12]];
var array2 = new Array();

for (var i=0; i<array1.length; i++) {
 var e1 = array1[i];
 var exists = false;
 for (var j=0; j<array2.length; j++) {
  if (array2[j][0] == e1[0] && array2[j][1] == e1[1]) exists = true;
 }
 if (exists == false) {
  array2[array2.length] = e1;
 }
}

the array2 is now array1 without duplicates. this should be way too slow for realtime game programming, but it should work. I am sorry, if I coded something wrong, it isn't intentional. I didn't test the code.

Upvotes: 2

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