Expert: vijayan - 4/6/2011

Question
I am writing a program that is suppose to remove duplicates in a vector.  I am having trouble writing the remove_duplicates function.  I am suppose to go through all the elements and check to see if the same value occurs at a lower index.  If true, remove the element.

Here is my code so far..


#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

void remove_element(int pos, vector<int>&a)
{
  for(int i = pos; i < a.size() - 1; i++)
  {
               a[i] = a[i + 1];
               a.pop_back();
  }
}

void remove_duplicates(vector<int>& a,vector<int>& b)
{
       for(int k = 0; k < a.size()-1; k++)
               {
               if(a[k] == a[k+1])
               }

}

void printVector(vector<int> a)
{
  for (int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++)
   cout << a[i] << " ";
  cout << "\n";
}

int main()
{
  vector<int> empty;
  vector<int> v1(9);
  v1[0] = 1; v1[1] = 4; v1[2] = 9; v1[3] = 16;
  v1[4] = 9; v1[5] = 7; v1[6] = 4; v1[7] = 9; v1[8] = 11;
  vector<int> v2(7);
  v2[0] = 11; v2[1] = 11; v2[2] = 7; v2[3] = 9; v2[4] = 16;
  v2[5] = 4; v2[6] = 1;

  remove_duplicates(empty);
  printVector(empty);
  printVector(v1);
  remove_duplicates(v1);
  printVector(v1);
  printVector(v2);
  remove_duplicates(v2);
  printVector(v2);

}"

Answer
> I am suppose to go through all the elements and check to see if the same value occurs at a lower index.  

bool value_occurs_at_a_lower_index( std::vector<int>& vec, std::vector<int>::size_type pos )
{
       for( std::vector<int>::size_type i = 0 ; i < pos ; ++i )
               if( vec[i] == vec[pos] ) return true ;
       return false ;
}

> If true, remove the element.

       for( std::vector<int>::size_type i = 0 ; i < pos ; )
       {
              if( value_occurs_at_a_lower_index( vec, i ) vec.erase( vec.begin() + i )
              else ++i ;
       }