wednesday 6:50

pom.xml

@@ -14,6 +14,19 @@
             <version>4.12</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
 
 
 </project>

src/main/java/com/zipcodewilmington/StringArrayUtils.java

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package com.zipcodewilmington;
 
 
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
 /**
  * Created by leon on 1/29/18.
  */
@@ -124,13 +126,16 @@ public class StringArrayUtils {
 
         public static String[] removeValue(String[] array, String valueToRemove) {
             String[] tempArray = new String[array.length];
+            int newIdx = 0;
             for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
-                if(array[i] == valueToRemove) {
-
+                if(array[i] != valueToRemove) {
+                    tempArray[newIdx] = array[i];
+                    newIdx++;
                 }
 
             }
-            return array;
+            return Arrays.copyOf(tempArray, newIdx);
+
         }
 
     /**
@@ -138,8 +143,20 @@ public class StringArrayUtils {
      * @return array of Strings with consecutive duplicates removes
      */ // TODO
     public static String[] removeConsecutiveDuplicates(String[] array) {
-        return null;
+        String[] tempArray = new String[array.length];
+        int newIdx = 0;
+
+        for(int i = 1; i < array.length; i++){
+            String current = array[i - 1];
+            if(!current.equals(array[i])){
+                tempArray[newIdx] = array[i - 1];
+              newIdx++;
+            }
         }
+        tempArray[newIdx] = array[array.length - 1];
+        return Arrays.copyOf(tempArray, newIdx + 1);
+
+    }
 
 
 
@@ -148,10 +165,27 @@ public class StringArrayUtils {
      * @return array of Strings with each consecutive duplicate occurrence concatenated as a single string in an array of Strings
      */ // TODO
     public static String[] packConsecutiveDuplicates(String[] array) {
-        return null;
-    }
+        String[] tempArray = new String[array.length];
+        int newIdx = 0;
+        String last  = array[0];
+        String next = "";
+        String set = "";
+        for(int i = 0; i < array.length - 1; i++){
+             next = array[i+1];
+            if(next.equals(last)){
+                set += last;
+
+            } else {
+                tempArray[newIdx] = set;
+                set ="";
+                newIdx++;
+            }
 
+        }
 
+         return Arrays.copyOf(tempArray, newIdx + 1);
+        
+    }
 
 }