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patel akash
patel akash

Reputation: 43

Removing Null items in php array

How can I remove null in the following php array? Can anyone help me pease?

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 2148

Answers (3)

Markus Safar
Markus Safar

Reputation: 6580

You will need to search recrusively and remove each element. Maybe some approach like this one (attention - I have not tested the code and I am NOT a php programmer):

function RemoveNull($array)
{
  foreach ($array as $key => $value)
  {
    if (is_array($value))
    {
      RemoveNull($value);
    }

    if ($value == null)
    {
      unset($array[$key]);
    }
  }
}

Upvotes: 0

DTH
DTH

Reputation: 1133

array_filter can remove empty strings, false values and null's from your array:

$entry = array(
             0 => 'foo',
             1 => false,
             2 => -1,
             3 => null,
             4 => ''
          );

print_r(array_filter($entry));

will output:

Array
(
    [0] => foo
    [2] => -1
)

Further more you can define your own filter and call array_filter with a callback function with your desired filtering:

function odd($var)
{
    // returns whether the input integer is odd
    return($var & 1);
}

function even($var)
{
    // returns whether the input integer is even
    return(!($var & 1));
}

$array1 = array("a"=>1, "b"=>2, "c"=>3, "d"=>4, "e"=>5);
$array2 = array(6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12);

echo "Odd :\n";
print_r(array_filter($array1, "odd"));
echo "Even:\n";
print_r(array_filter($array2, "even"));

will output:

Odd :
Array
(
    [a] => 1
    [c] => 3
    [e] => 5
)
Even:
Array
(
    [0] => 6
    [2] => 8
    [4] => 10
    [6] => 12
)

Upvotes: 2

felipsmartins
felipsmartins

Reputation: 13549

Just use array_filter:

array_filter($array)

array_filter keeps any element evalueted as true in the array. It returns a new array.

Upvotes: 2

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