How do I remove duplicates from a C# array?

Question

I have been working with a string[] array in C# that gets returned from a function call. I could possibly cast to a Generic collection, but I was w

Answer 1

Find answer below.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var nums = new int[] { 1, 4, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9 };
        var result = removeDuplicates(nums);
        foreach (var item in result)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(item);
        }
    }
    static int[] removeDuplicates(int[] nums)
    {
        nums = nums.ToList().OrderBy(c => c).ToArray();
        int j = 1;
        int i = 0;
        int stop = 0;
        while (j < nums.Length)
        {
            if (nums[i] != nums[j])
            {
                nums[i + 1] = nums[j];
                stop = i + 2;
                i++;
            }
            j++;
        }
        nums = nums.Take(stop).ToArray();
        return nums;
    }
}

Just a bit of contribution based on a test i just solved, maybe helpful and open to improvement by other top contributors here. Here are the things i did:

1. I used OrderBy which allows me order or sort the items from smallest to the highest using LINQ
2. I then convert it to back to an array and then re-assign it back to the primary datasource
3. So i then initialize j which is my right hand side of the array to be 1 and i which is my left hand side of the array to be 0, i also initialize where i would i to stop to be 0.
4. I used a while loop to increment through the array by going from one position to the other left to right, for each increment the stop position is the current value of i + 2 which i will use later to truncate the duplicates from the array.
5. I then increment by moving from left to right from the if statement and from right to right outside of the if statement until i iterate through the entire values of the array.
6. I then pick from the first element to the stop position which becomes the last i index plus 2. that way i am able to remove all the duplicate items from the int array. which is then reassigned.