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1836. Remove Duplicates From an Unsorted Linked List

Description

Given the head of a linked list, find all the values that appear more than once in the list and delete the nodes that have any of those values.

Return the linked list after the deletions.

 

Example 1:

Input: head = [1,2,3,2]
Output: [1,3]
Explanation: 2 appears twice in the linked list, so all 2's should be deleted. After deleting all 2's, we are left with [1,3].

Example 2:

Input: head = [2,1,1,2]
Output: []
Explanation: 2 and 1 both appear twice. All the elements should be deleted.

Example 3:

Input: head = [3,2,2,1,3,2,4]
Output: [1,4]
Explanation: 3 appears twice and 2 appears three times. After deleting all 3's and 2's, we are left with [1,4].

 

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is in the range [1, 105]
• 1 <= Node.val <= 105

Solutions

Solution 1: Hash Table

We can use a hash table $cnt$ to count the number of occurrences of each element in the linked list, and then traverse the linked list to delete elements that appear more than once.

The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$, where $n$ is the length of the linked list.

• Java
• C++
• Python
• Go
• TypeScript

• /**
   * Definition for singly-linked list.
   * public class ListNode {
   *     int val;
   *     ListNode next;
   *     ListNode() {}
   *     ListNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
   *     ListNode(int val, ListNode next) { this.val = val; this.next = next; }
   * }
   */
  class Solution {
      public ListNode deleteDuplicatesUnsorted(ListNode head) {
          Map<Integer, Integer> cnt = new HashMap<>();
          for (ListNode cur = head; cur != null; cur = cur.next) {
              cnt.put(cur.val, cnt.getOrDefault(cur.val, 0) + 1);
          }
          ListNode dummy = new ListNode(0, head);
          for (ListNode pre = dummy, cur = head; cur != null; cur = cur.next) {
              if (cnt.get(cur.val) > 1) {
                  pre.next = cur.next;
              } else {
                  pre = cur;
              }
          }
          return dummy.next;
      }
  }
  

• /**
   * Definition for singly-linked list.
   * struct ListNode {
   *     int val;
   *     ListNode *next;
   *     ListNode() : val(0), next(nullptr) {}
   *     ListNode(int x) : val(x), next(nullptr) {}
   *     ListNode(int x, ListNode *next) : val(x), next(next) {}
   * };
   */
  class Solution {
  public:
      ListNode* deleteDuplicatesUnsorted(ListNode* head) {
          unordered_map<int, int> cnt;
          for (ListNode* cur = head; cur; cur = cur->next) {
              cnt[cur->val]++;
          }
          ListNode* dummy = new ListNode(0, head);
          for (ListNode *pre = dummy, *cur = head; cur; cur = cur->next) {
              if (cnt[cur->val] > 1) {
                  pre->next = cur->next;
              } else {
                  pre = cur;
              }
          }
          return dummy->next;
      }
  };
  

• # Definition for singly-linked list.
  # class ListNode:
  #     def __init__(self, val=0, next=None):
  #         self.val = val
  #         self.next = next
  class Solution:
      def deleteDuplicatesUnsorted(self, head: ListNode) -> ListNode:
          cnt = Counter()
          cur = head
          while cur:
              cnt[cur.val] += 1
              cur = cur.next
          dummy = ListNode(0, head)
          pre, cur = dummy, head
          while cur:
              if cnt[cur.val] > 1:
                  pre.next = cur.next
              else:
                  pre = cur
              cur = cur.next
          return dummy.next
  
  

• /**
   * Definition for singly-linked list.
   * type ListNode struct {
   *     Val int
   *     Next *ListNode
   * }
   */
  func deleteDuplicatesUnsorted(head *ListNode) *ListNode {
  	cnt := map[int]int{}
  	for cur := head; cur != nil; cur = cur.Next {
  		cnt[cur.Val]++
  	}
  	dummy := &ListNode{0, head}
  	for pre, cur := dummy, head; cur != nil; cur = cur.Next {
  		if cnt[cur.Val] > 1 {
  			pre.Next = cur.Next
  		} else {
  			pre = cur
  		}
  	}
  	return dummy.Next
  }
  

• /**
   * Definition for singly-linked list.
   * class ListNode {
   *     val: number
   *     next: ListNode | null
   *     constructor(val?: number, next?: ListNode | null) {
   *         this.val = (val===undefined ? 0 : val)
   *         this.next = (next===undefined ? null : next)
   *     }
   * }
   */
  
  function deleteDuplicatesUnsorted(head: ListNode | null): ListNode | null {
      const cnt: Map<number, number> = new Map();
      for (let cur = head; cur; cur = cur.next) {
          const x = cur.val;
          cnt.set(x, (cnt.get(x) ?? 0) + 1);
      }
      const dummy = new ListNode(0, head);
      for (let pre = dummy, cur = head; cur; cur = cur.next) {
          if (cnt.get(cur.val)! > 1) {
              pre.next = cur.next;
          } else {
              pre = cur;
          }
      }
      return dummy.next;
  }
  
  

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