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

Here is a very light and easy way:

var codes = dc_1.split(',');
var i = codes.length;
while (i--) {
  if (codes.indexOf(codes[i]) != i) {
    codes.splice(i,1);
  }
}

Answer 2

The following function (a variation of the eliminateDuplicates function already mentioned) seems to do the trick, returning test2,1,7,5 for the input ["test", "test2", "test2", 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 10, 22, 43, 1, 5, 8]

Note that the problem is stranger in JavaScript than in most other languages, because a JavaScript array can hold just about anything. Note that solutions that use sorting might need to provide an appropriate sorting function--I haven't tried that route yet.

This particular implementation works for (at least) strings and numbers.

function findDuplicates(arr) {
    var i,
        len=arr.length,
        out=[],
        obj={};

    for (i=0;i<len;i++) {
        if (obj[arr[i]] != null) {
            if (!obj[arr[i]]) {
                out.push(arr[i]);
                obj[arr[i]] = 1;
            }
        } else {
            obj[arr[i]] = 0;            
        }
    }
    return out;
}

Answer 3

Using "includes" to test if the element already exists.

var arr = [1, 1, 4, 5, 5], darr = [], duplicates = [];

for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
  if(darr.includes(arr[i]) && !duplicates.includes(arr[i]))
    duplicates.push(arr[i])
  else
    darr.push(arr[i]);
}

console.log(duplicates);

<h3>Array with duplicates</h3>
<p>[1, 1, 4, 5, 5]</p>
<h3>Array with distinct elements</h3>
<p>[1, 4, 5]</p>
<h3>duplicate values are</h3>
<p>[1, 5]</p>

Answer 4

If you want to elimate the duplicates, try this great solution:

function eliminateDuplicates(arr) {
  var i,
      len = arr.length,
      out = [],
      obj = {};

  for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    obj[arr[i]] = 0;
  }
  for (i in obj) {
    out.push(i);
  }
  return out;
}

Source: http://dreaminginjavascript.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/eliminating-duplicates/

Answer 5

UPDATED: Short one-liner to get the duplicates:

[1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 4].filter((e, i, a) => a.indexOf(e) !== i) // [2, 4]

To get the array without duplicates simply invert the condition:

[1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 4].filter((e, i, a) => a.indexOf(e) === i) // [1, 2, 3, 4]

I simply did not think about filter() in my old answer below ;)

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When all you need is to check that there are no duplicates as asked in this question you can use the every() method:

[1, 2, 3].every((e, i, a) => a.indexOf(e) === i) // true

[1, 2, 1].every((e, i, a) => a.indexOf(e) === i) // false

Note that every() doesn't work for IE 8 and below.

Answer 6

With ES6 (or using Babel or Typescipt) you can simply do:

var duplicates = myArray.filter(i => myArray.filter(ii => ii === i).length > 1);

https://es6console.com/j58euhbt/