arrInput = [4, 6, 3, 8, 15, 0, 13, 18, 7, 16, 14, 19, 17, 5, 11, 1, 12, 2, 9, 10] ## Example 1 ## arrInput = [0, 1, 13, 7, 6, 8, 10, 11, 2, 14, 16, 4, 12, 9, 17, 5, 3, 18, 15, 19] ## Example 2 ## arrInput = [9, 8, 3, 11, 5, 7, 13, 19, 12, 4, 14, 10, 18, 2, 16, 1, 0, 15, 6, 17] ## Example 3 arrIndx = [0] * len(arrInput) arrOutput = [] for nIndxLoop in range(len(arrIndx)): if arrIndx[nIndxLoop] == 1: continue arrTemp = [] nTempIndxLoop = nIndxLoop while arrInput[nTempIndxLoop] not in arrTemp: arrTemp.append(arrInput[nTempIndxLoop]) arrIndx[nTempIndxLoop] = 1 nTempIndxLoop = arrInput[nTempIndxLoop] arrOutput.append(arrTemp) ## print (arrOutput) print (len(arrOutput))