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Non-overlapping Intervals

Problem statement

Given an array of intervals intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], return the minimum number of intervals you need to remove to make the rest of the intervals non-overlapping.

Example 1:

Input: intervals = [[1,2],[2,3],[3,4],[1,3]]Output: 1Explanation: [1,3] can be removed and the rest of the intervals are non-overlapping.

Example 2:

Input: intervals = [[1,2],[1,2],[1,2]]Output: 2Explanation: You need to remove two [1,2] to make the rest of the intervals non-overlapping.

Example 3:

Input: intervals = [[1,2],[2,3]]Output: 0Explanation: You don't need to remove any of the intervals since they're already non-overlapping.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= intervals.length <= 105
  • intervals[i].length == 2
  • -5 * 104 <= starti < endi <= 5 * 104

My solution

/**
* @param {number[][]} intervals
* @return {number}
*/
var eraseOverlapIntervals = function(intervals) {
intervals.sort((a,b) => a[1] - b[1]);

// console.log(intervals)

let count = 0;
let current = intervals[0]
for (let i = 1; i < intervals.length; i++) {
if (intervals[i][0] < current[1]) {
count++
}
else {
current = intervals[i]
}
}

return count;
};