Intermediate Algorithm Scripting1: Sorted Union

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Can someone tell me why my array doesn’t concat?

Your code so far


function uniteUnique(arr) {
let args=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
var i=0;
var b=arguments.length;
var a=[];
 for(let i=0;i<b;i++){
   a=arguments[0].concat(arguments[i]);
 }
console.log(a);
for(let i=0;i<a.length;i++){
  for(let j=1;j<a.length;j++){
    if(a[i]===a[j] && i!==j){
      a.splice(j,1);
    }
  }
}
console.log(a);
return a;
}

uniteUnique([1, 3, 2], [5, 2, 1, 4], [2, 1]);

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2

It does concat, only every loop iteration is overwriting the result, so what you’ll get in the end is first and last arrays from arguments concatenated.

3

@jenovs can you tell me why does this overwrite. Actually I am new to coding and don’t understand this.