Find unique values in a Swift Array - arrays

Question

I am building a project that tells me the unique words in a piece of text.
I have my orginal string scriptTextView which I have added each word into the array scriptEachWordInArray
I would now like to create an array called scriptUniqueWords which only includes words that appear once (in other words are unique) in scriptEachWordInArray
So I'd like my scriptUniqueWords array to equal = ["Silent","Holy"] as a result.
I don't want to create an array without duplicates but an array that has only values that appeared once in the first place.
var scriptTextView = "Silent Night Holy Night"
var scriptEachWordInArray = ["Silent", "night", "Holy", "night"]
var scriptUniqueWords = [String]()
for i in 0..<scriptEachWordInArray.count {
if scriptTextView.components(separatedBy: "\(scriptEachWordInArray[i]) ").count == 1 {
scriptUniqueWords.append(scriptEachWordInArray[i])
print("Unique word \(scriptEachWordInArray[i])")}
}

Answer 1

You can use NSCountedSet
let text = "Silent Night Holy Night"
let words = text.lowercased().components(separatedBy: " ")
let countedSet = NSCountedSet(array: words)
let singleOccurrencies = countedSet.filter { countedSet.count(for: $0) == 1 }.flatMap { $0 as? String }
Now singleOccurrencies contains ["holy", "silent"]

Answer 2

Swift
lets try It.
let array = ["1", "1", "2", "2", "3", "3"]
let unique = Array(Set(array))
// ["1", "2", "3"]

Answer 3

Filtering out unique words without preserving order
As another alternative to NSCountedSet, you could use a dictionary to count the the number of occurrences of each word, and filter out those that only occur once:
let scriptEachWordInArray = ["Silent", "night", "Holy", "night"]
var freqs: [String: Int] = [:]
scriptEachWordInArray.forEach { freqs[$0] = (freqs[$0] ?? 0) + 1 }
let scriptUniqueWords = freqs.flatMap { $0.1 == 1 ? $0.0 : nil }
print(scriptUniqueWords) // ["Holy", "Silent"]
This solution, however (as well as the one using NSCountedSet), will not preserve the order of the original array, since a dictionary as well as NSCountedSet is an unordered collection.
Filtering out unique words while preserving order
If you'd like to preserve the order from the original array (removing element which appear more than once), you could count the frequencies of each word, but store it in a (String, Int) tuple array rather than a dictionary.
Making use of the Collection extension from this Q&A
extension Collection where Iterator.Element: Hashable {
var frequencies: [(Iterator.Element, Int)] {
var seen: [Iterator.Element: Int] = [:]
var frequencies: [(Iterator.Element, Int)] = []
forEach {
if let idx = seen[$0] {
frequencies[idx].1 += 1
}
else {
seen[$0] = frequencies.count
frequencies.append(($0, 1))
}
}
return frequencies
}
}
// or, briefer but worse at showing intent
extension Collection where Iterator.Element: Hashable {
var frequencies: [(Iterator.Element, Int)] {
var seen: [Iterator.Element: Int] = [:]
var frequencies: [(Iterator.Element, Int)] = []
for elem in self {
seen[elem].map { frequencies[$0].1 += 1 } ?? {
seen[elem] = frequencies.count
return frequencies.append((elem, 1))
}()
}
return frequencies
}
}
... you may filter out the unique words of your array (while preserving order) as
let scriptUniqueWords = scriptEachWordInArray.frequencies
.flatMap { $0.1 == 1 ? $0.0 : nil }
print(scriptUniqueWords) // ["Silent", "Holy"]

Answer 4

you can filter the values that are already contained in the array:
let newArray = array.filter { !array.contains($0) }