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Learning JavaScript Data  Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms Write complex and powerful JavaScript code using the latest ECMAScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623872
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Loiane Avancini Loiane Avancini
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JavaScript – A Quick Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. ECMAScript and TypeScript Overview 3. Arrays 4. Stacks 5. Queues and Deques 6. Linked Lists 7. Sets 8. Dictionaries and Hashes 9. Recursion 10. Trees 11. Binary Heap and Heap Sort 12. Graphs 13. Sorting and Searching Algorithms 14. Algorithm Designs and Techniques 15. Algorithm Complexity 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding and removing elements from a specific position

So far, we have learned how to add elements at the end and at the beginning of an array, and we have also learned how to remove elements from the beginning and end of an array. What if we also want to add or remove elements from any position in our array? How can we do this?

We can use the splice method to remove an element from an array by simply specifying the position/index that we would like to delete from and how many elements we would like to remove, as follows:

numbers.splice(5,3); 

This code will remove three elements, starting from index 5 of our array. This means numbers[5], numbers[6], and numbers[7] will be removed from the numbers array. The content of our array will be -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (as the numbers 2, 3, and 4 have been removed).

As with JavaScript arrays and objects, we can also...
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