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Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array :

We'll use two pointer algorithm for this :-

where, i is the current iterator of the array. (i = 1 initially) 
j, is the index where the unqiue elements are to be placed in the array (j = 0 initially)

How to do in-place swapping of unique elements? 
* if element at ith index is not equal to element at (i-1)th index that means it is unique
* keep adding such elements into jth index of nums and move on!
Psuedocode
  1. Refer Leetcode Article reference
Source Code
    public int removeDuplicates(int[] nums) {
        int i,j;
        for(i=1;i<nums.length;i++)
        {
            if(nums[i]!=nums[i-1])
            {
                nums[j] = nums[i];
                j++;
            }
        }
        return j;
    }
 Time complexity :
 - O(n) 
 - Traversing the array of length 'n'

 Space Complexity :
 - O(1) : since no extra space used