Get all non-unique values (i.e.: duplicate/more than one occurrence) in an array

Question

I need to check a JavaScript array to see if there are any duplicate values. What\'s the easiest way to do this? I just need to find what the duplicated values are - I don\'

Answer 1

var arr = [2, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 5];

function returnDuplicates(arr) {
  return arr.reduce(function(dupes, val, i) {
    if (arr.indexOf(val) !== i && dupes.indexOf(val) === -1) {
      dupes.push(val);
    }
    return dupes;
  }, []);
}

alert(returnDuplicates(arr));

This function avoids the sorting step and uses the reduce() method to push duplicates to a new array if it doesn't already exist in it.