Remove Element

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

The order of elements can be changed, and the elements after the new length don't matter.

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Example

Given an array [0,4,4,0,0,2,4,4], value=4

return 4 and front four elements of the array is [0,0,0,2]




public class Solution {

    /** 

     *@param A: A list of integers

     *@param elem: An integer

     *@return: The new length after remove

     */

    public int removeElement(int[] A, int elem) {

        // write your code here

        if(A == null || A.length == 0) return 0;

        int len = 0;

        for(int i = 0; i < A.length; i++){

            if(A[i] != elem){

                A[len] = A[i];

                len++;

            }

        }

        

        return len;

    }

}