More elegant way to check for duplicates in C++ array?

Question

I wrote this code in C++ as part of a uni task where I need to ensure that there are no duplicates within an array:

// Check for duplicate numbers in user in         


        

Answer 1

//std::unique(_copy) requires a sorted container.
std::sort(cont.begin(), cont.end());

//testing if cont has duplicates
std::unique(cont.begin(), cont.end()) != cont.end();

//getting a new container with no duplicates
std::unique_copy(cont.begin(), cont.end(), std::back_inserter(cont2));