determine if a string has all unique characters?

Question

Can anybody tell me how to implement a program to check a string contains all unique chars ?

Answer 1

my original answer was also doing the similar array technique and count the character occurrence.

but i was doing it in C and I think it can be simple using some pointer manipulation and get rid of the array totally

#include 
#include 
#include 

void main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *string;
    if (argc<2)
    {
        printf ("please specify a string parameter.\n");
        exit (0);       
    }

    string = argv[1];
    int i;

    int is_unique = 1;
    char *to_check;
    while (*string)
    {
        to_check = string+1;
        while (*to_check)
        {
            //printf ("s = %c, c = %c\n", *string, *to_check);
            if (*to_check == *string)
            {
                is_unique = 0;
                break;
            }
            to_check++;
        }
        string++;
    }

    if (is_unique)
        printf ("string is unique\n");
    else
        printf ("string is NOT unique\n");
}