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Reduce an array to groups in JavaScript
Suppose, we have an array of strings that contains some duplicate entries like this −
const arr = ['blue', 'blue', 'green', 'blue', 'yellow', 'yellow', 'green'];
We are required to write a JavaScript function that takes in one such array. The function should merge all the duplicate entries with one another.
Therefore, the output for the above input should look like this −
const output = ['blueblue', 'green', 'blue', 'yellowyellow', 'green'];
Example
The code for this will be −
const arr = ['blue', 'blue', 'green', 'blue', 'yellow', 'yellow', 'green']; const combineDuplicate = (arr = []) => { let prev = null; const groups = arr.reduce((acc, value) => { if (prev === value) { acc[acc.length - 1] += value; } else { prev = value acc.push(value) } return acc; }, []) return groups; }; console.log(combineDuplicate(arr));
Output
And the output in the console will be −
[ 'blueblue', 'green', 'blue', 'yellowyellow', 'green' ]
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