How to remove repeated entries from an array while preserving non-consecutive duplicates?

Question

I have an array like var arr = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4, 5, 5, 5]; I really want the output to be [5,2,9,4,5]. My logic for this was:

Answer 1

Try this:

var a = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4, 5, 5, 5];

uniqueArray = a.filter(function(item, pos) {
return a.indexOf(item) == pos;
});

See Remove Duplicates from JavaScript Array