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Solution: Remove Element

Understand how to efficiently remove all instances of a given value from an array using a two pointers approach. This lesson teaches you to modify the array in place without extra space, shifting elements to retain only those not equal to the target value, and to return the new length of the array.

Statement

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.

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