Re: Removing empty values from array

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ashley
Sheridan<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:52 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have this in a simple routine...
>>
>> for($i=0, $if=count($array); $i<$if; ++$i)
>>       if( $array[$i] == '' )
>>       {
>>               array_splice( $array, $i, 1);
>>
>>               --$i;
>>               --$if;
>>       }
>>
>> My question: is this the better way to do it?
>>
>> --
>> Martin Scotta
>>
> array_filter() will return an array without any elements that equate to
> false (empty strings, 0, false) although you can use the optional
> argument to specify your own function which should return true if you
> want to keep an element, or false if you want to ditch it, if you need
> to eliminate only empty strings.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
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I'd just do

foreach($array as &$v) {
    if($v === false || $v === null || $v === 0) {
        unset($v);
    }
}


I wouldn't do anything more complicated >.>

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