An Array of Different Names

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  9 months ago

  by makamo66

  Maureen Kathleen Moore

  , United States

  Joined 15 years ago

  I have an array of names and I want to push only the different names to the namesArray. So this code should output only name-3, name-4, and name-5

  var names = ["name-1","name-1","name-1","name-1","name-2","name-2","name-3","name-4","name-5","name-6","name-6"];
  
  var namesArray = [];
  for(var i = 0; i < names.length; i++){
  
  product_name = names[i];
  product_name_compare = names[i-1];
  
      if (product_name != product_name_compare){
  
      	namesArray.push(product_name);
      }
  }
  
  console.log(namesArray);
  

  This is the output: [ 'name-1', 'name-2', 'name-3', 'name-4', 'name-5', 'name-6' ]

  Desired output is ['name-3', 'name-4', 'name-5']

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  9 months ago

  by makamo66

  Maureen Kathleen Moore

  , United States

  Joined 15 years ago

  This question was answered at https://codeforum.org/threads/an-array-of-different-names.933/#post-6258 and then I added more complexity to the question.

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