Remove duplicate characters from string

Question

I have to make a function in JavaScript that removes all duplicated letters in a string. So far I\'ve been able to do this: If I have the word \"anaconda\" it shows me as a

Answer 1

I have FF/Chrome, on which this works:

var h={}; 
"anaconda".split("").
  map(function(c){h[c] |= 0; h[c]++; return c}).
  filter(function(c){return h[c] == 1}).
  join("")

Which you can reuse if you write a function like:

function nonRepeaters(s) {
  var h={}; 
  return s.split("").
    map(function(c){h[c] |= 0; h[c]++; return c}).
    filter(function(c){return h[c] == 1}).
    join("");
 }

For older browsers that lack map, filter etc, I'm guessing that it could be emulated by jQuery or prototype...