Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array
Description: Given a sorted array, remove the duplicates in-place such that each element appear only once and return the new length. Do not allocate extra space for another array, you must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.
Example: Given nums = [1,1,2], Your function should return length = 2, with the first two elements of nums being 1 and 2 respectively. It doesn’t matter what you leave beyond the new length.
Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II
Description: Follow up for “Remove Duplicates”: What if duplicates are allowed at most twice?
For example, Given sorted array nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3], Your function should return length = 5, with the first five elements of nums being 1, 1, 2, 2 and 3. It doesn’t matter what you leave beyond the new length.
Sort Colors
Description: Given an array with n objects colored red, white or blue, sort them so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white and blue. Here, we will use the integers 0, 1, and 2 to represent the color red, white, and blue respectively.
Note: You are not suppose to use the library’s sort function for this problem.
Follow up: A rather straight forward solution is a two-pass algorithm using counting sort.
First, iterate the array counting number of 0’s, 1’s, and 2’s, then overwrite array with total number of 0’s, then 1’s
and followed by 2’s. Could you come up with an one-pass algorithm using only constant space?