Remove Element

Explore how to efficiently remove all occurrences of a specified value from an integer array in place. Understand and apply the two pointers approach to modify the array and return the count of elements not equal to the target value, while preserving the order and using no additional memory.

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You are given an integer array, nums, and an integer, val. Your task is to remove all occurrences of val from nums in place, meaning no additional memory allocation should be used. The relative order of the elements in the array may be changed. After modifying the array, return the number of elements that are not equal to val.

Let $k$ represent the number of elements in nums that are not equal to val. To successfully solve this problem, you need to ensure the following:

Modify the array, nums, such that the first $k$ ...