Array remove duplicate elements

Question

I have an unsorted array, what is the best method to remove all the duplicates of an element if present?

e.g:

a[1,5,2,6,8,9,1,1,10,3,2,4,1,3,11,3]
         


        

Answer 1

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

public class testing {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EligibleOffer efg = new EligibleOffer();
        efg.setCode("1234");
        efg.setName("hey");
        EligibleOffer efg1 = new EligibleOffer();
        efg1.setCode("1234");
        efg1.setName("hey1");
        EligibleOffer efg2 = new EligibleOffer();
        efg2.setCode("1235");
        efg2.setName("hey");
        EligibleOffer efg3 = new EligibleOffer();
        efg3.setCode("1235");
        efg3.setName("hey");
        EligibleOffer[] eligibleOffer = { efg, efg1,efg2 ,efg3};
        removeDupliacte(eligibleOffer);
    }

    public static EligibleOffer[] removeDupliacte(EligibleOffer[] array) {
        List list = Arrays.asList(array);
        List list1 = new ArrayList();
        int len = list.size();
        for (int i = 0; i <= len-1; i++) {
            boolean isDupliacte = false;
            EligibleOffer eOfr = (EligibleOffer) list.get(i);
            String value = eOfr.getCode().concat(eOfr.getName());
            if (list1.isEmpty()) {
                list1.add(list.get(i));
                continue;
            }
            int len1 = list1.size();
            for (int j = 0; j <= len1-1; j++) {
                EligibleOffer eOfr1 = (EligibleOffer) list1.get(j);
                String value1 = eOfr1.getCode().concat(eOfr1.getName());
                if (value.equals(value1)) {
                    isDupliacte = true;
                    break;
                }
                System.out.println(value+"\t"+value1);
            }
            if (!isDupliacte) {
                list1.add(eOfr);
            }
        }
        System.out.println(list1);
        EligibleOffer[] eligibleOffer = new EligibleOffer[list1.size()];
        list1.toArray(eligibleOffer);
        return eligibleOffer;
    }
}