Arrays - Find missing numbers in a Sequence

Question

I\'m trying to find an easy way to loop (iterate) over an array to find all the missing numbers in a sequence, the array will look a bit like the one below.

var nu

Answer 1

To find a missing number in a sequence, First of all, We need to sort an array. Then we can identify what number is missing. I am providing here full code with some test scenarios. this code will identify only missing positive number, if you pass negative values even then it gives positive number.

function findMissingNumber(inputAr) {
  // Sort array
  sortArray(inputAr);

  // finding missing number here
  var result = 0;
  if (inputAr[0] > 1 || inputAr[inputAr.length - 1] < 1) {
    result = 1;
  } else {
    for (var i = 0; i < inputAr.length; i++) {
      if ((inputAr[i + 1] - inputAr[i]) > 1) {
        result = inputAr[i] + 1;
      }
    }
  }
  if (!result) {
    result = inputAr[inputAr.length - 1] + 1;
  }
  return result;
}

function sortArray(inputAr) {
  var temp;
  for (var i = 0; i < inputAr.length; i++) {
    for (var j = i + 1; j < inputAr.length; j++) {
      if (inputAr[j] < inputAr[i]) {
        temp = inputAr[j];
        inputAr[j] = inputAr[i];
        inputAr[i] = temp;
      }
    }
  }
}

console.log(findMissingNumber([1, 3, 6, 4, 1, 2]));
console.log(findMissingNumber([1, 2, 3]));
console.log(findMissingNumber([85]));
console.log(findMissingNumber([86, 85]));
console.log(findMissingNumber([0, 1000]));