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Solution: Remove Element

Explore how to efficiently remove all occurrences of a specified value from an integer array using the two pointers technique. Learn to modify the array in place without extra memory allocation, track valid elements, and understand the approach's time and space complexity.

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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