I'm storing some coordinates in an array. It looks like this:
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}]
How can I filter this array so the objects are unique, meaning there are no duplicates of objects with same x and y value? Expected output should be:
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}]
I've seen some similar solutions, but they didn't really solve this problem. I started with the following function
const output = Object.values(
coords.reduce( (c, e) => {
if (!c[e.x]) c[e.x] = e;
return c;
}, {})
but it only returns objects with different x values, so it just completely ommits y value.
CodePudding user response:
One idea is to use a Set, map the x & y into a string, and then deserialize the Set to have unique x,y's..
eg..
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}];
const dedup = [...new Set(coords.map(m => `${m.x}:${m.y}`))].map(m => {
const [x,y] = m.split(':').map(n => n | 0);
return {x,y};
});
console.log(dedup);
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CodePudding user response:
We can use Array.reduce(), along with a Map to get the required result.
We'd add each item to the map, using the concatenated x and y values as keys, then return the values() to get de-duplicated values.
This will have complexity of O(n), so it will be efficient for large arrays.
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}];
const dedup = [...coords.reduce((map, { x, y }) => {
return (map.set(`${x}-${y}`, { x, y }));
}, new Map()).values()];
console.log('De-duplicated:', dedup)
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Or with a regular object:
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}];
const dedup = Object.values(coords.reduce((acc, { x, y }) => {
return { ...acc, [`${x}-${y}`]: { x, y }}
}, {}));
console.log('De-duplicated:', dedup)
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CodePudding user response:
A pretty inefficient (O(n^2)), but flexible and straightforward solution: You first define a function that checks if two coordinates are equal. Then you filter all elements which have an equal element at a later position in the array.
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}]
const customUnique = (arr, isEqual) => {
// filter elements where an equal element exists at an earlier position
// thus the first element is kept
return arr.filter((a, i) => !arr.some((b, j) => i > j && isEqual(a, b)))
}
console.log(customUnique(coords, (a, b) => a.x === b.x && a.y === b.y))
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CodePudding user response:
You can use originalArray.reduce()
with an array instead of an object, so you can make use of array.find.
const coords = [{x: 260, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 0}, {x: 180, y: 240}, {x: 360, y: 120}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}, {x: 180, y: 60}]
console.log(
coords.reduce((arr, e) => {
if (!arr.find(item => item.x == e.x && item.y == e.y)) {
arr.push(e);
}
return arr;
}, [])
);
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CodePudding user response:
Yet another simple solution using a temporary array. However not the best as I could say:
const filteredCoords: any = [];
for(let coord of coords)
if (!filteredCoords.find((ele: { x: number; y: number; }) => ele.x == coord.x && ele.y == coord.y)){
filteredCoords.push(coord)
}
CodePudding user response:
.sort
the input first by x then by y. This will put duplicate items next to each other. Then .reduce
the sorted array to keep unique items (this step requires only one pass):
const coords = [
{x: 260, y: 60},
{x: 180, y: 0},
{x: 180, y: 240},
{x: 360, y: 120},
{x: 180, y: 60},
{x: 180, y: 60},
{x: 180, y: 60}
];
const sorted = coords.slice(); // don't sort the original array
sorted.sort((a, b) => a.x - b.x || a.y - b.y);
const output = sorted.reduce((arr, val) => {
if (arr.length === 0 || arr[arr.length - 1].x !== val.x || arr[arr.length - 1].y !== val.y) {
arr.push(val);
}
return arr;
}, []);
console.log(output);
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