From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2005-10-16T02:56:55+09:00
Subject: How to get non-unique elements from an array?

Hello!

I need to get non-unique elements from an array.
The best I came up with was using a hash as a counter for each unique
elements.

a = [0,1,2,3,4,5,2,3]

#What I want to get is [2,3] as 2,3 are non-unique elements.

h = {}
a.each do |i|
  if h[i]
    h[i] += 1
  else
    h[i] = 1
  end
end

u = []
h.each do |k, v|
  if v > 1
    u << k
  end
end

#now u == [2,3]

This works fine.
But I think there's a better way.
How do you handle such a case?

Thanks in advance.

Sam