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Solution: Remove Element

Explore how to apply the two pointers pattern to efficiently remove all occurrences of a given value from an array without using extra space. Understand how to manipulate array elements in place and return the count of valid elements after modification.

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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