javascript - insert into multidimensional array with for loop

Question

I have a sample array, arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1] and i need to generate a multidimensional array like that:

 [0] => Array
    (
        [0] => 5
    )
 [1] => Array
    (
        [0] => 4
    )
 [2] => Array
    (
        [0] => 3
        [1] => 3
    )
 [3] => Array
    (
        [0] => 2
        [1] => 2
    )
 [4] => Array
    (
        [0] => 1
    )

I'm not sure about how javascript array works. I've tried to write the code but ended up the all the new array elements is 1

var arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1]
var arrtemp = []
var temp = []
var tempval = 0
var col = 0


for (var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
  if (i==0) {
    temp.push(arr[i])
    tempval = arr[i]
  }
  
  else {
    if (arr[i] == tempval){
      temp.push(arr[i]);
    }
    else {
      arrtemp[col] = temp;
      col++;
      temp.length =0;
      temp.push(arr[i]);
      tempval = arr[i];
    }
  }
}

console.log(arrtemp)

CertainPerformance · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-21 03:27:12Z

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Luckily, your arr is already sorted. I'd use reduce instead, where the accumulator is an array of arrays. If the last array in the accumulator doesn't have the same value as the new item you're iterating over, create a new array in it, and push to the last array in the accumulator:

var arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1];
const output = arr.reduce((a, num) => {
  if (!a.length || a[a.length - 1][0] !== num) {
    a.push([]);
  }
  a[a.length - 1].push(num);
  return a;
}, []);
console.log(output);

answered Nov 21, 2019 at 3:27

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Mohammad Ali Rony · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-21 03:37:07Z

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try this

let arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1];
let last;
let newArr =[];
for (var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
  if (last!=arr[i]) {
    let temp=[];
    temp.push(arr[i]);
    newArr.push(temp);
    last =arr[i];
  }
  else
  {
    newArr[newArr.length-1].push(arr[i]);
  }
}

console.log(newArr);

answered Nov 21, 2019 at 3:37

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Nick Parsons · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-21 03:55:11Z

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You can .join() the array to form a string. Then on the string, you can match consecutive runs of numbers using .match() with regex. Lastly, you can .split() each match into an array.

See example below:

const arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1];
const str = arr.join('').match(/(.)\1*/g).map(v => v.split(''));
             
console.log(str);

If your result must be numbers you can add an additional .map() to convert each string into a number:

const arr = [5,4,3,3,2,2,1];
const str = arr.join('')
             .match(/(.)\1*/g)
             .map(v => v.split('').map(Number));
             
console.log(str);

edited Nov 21, 2019 at 3:55

answered Nov 21, 2019 at 3:35

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bli07 · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-17 10:30:33Z

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let arr = [5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1];
let newArr = [[]];
let curVal = 0;
let col = 0;

curVal = arr[0];
for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
  if (arr[i] != curVal) {
    col++;
    newArr.push([]);
    curVal = arr[i];
  }
  newArr[col].push(curVal);
}

console.log(newArr);

edited Sep 17, 2020 at 10:30

answered Nov 21, 2019 at 3:33

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