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MegaChan
MegaChan

Reputation: 430

How do I check if all elements of an array are null?

What's the best way to check for an array with all null values besides using Lodash, possibly with ES6?

var emp = [null, null, null];
if (_.compact(emp).length == 0) {
  ...
}

Upvotes: 18

Views: 35886

Answers (3)

Ori Drori
Ori Drori

Reputation: 191916

You can use Array#every or lodash's _.every() with _.isNull():

var emp = [null, null, null];

var result = emp.every(_.isNull);

console.log(result);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.4/lodash.min.js"></script>

Upvotes: 2

Andrew Li
Andrew Li

Reputation: 57924

A side note: Your solution doesn't actually check for an all-null array. It just checks for an all-falsey array. [0, false, ''] would still pass the check.

You could use the Array#every method to check that every element of an array meets a certain condition:

const arr = [null, null, null];
console.log(arr.every(element => element === null));

every takes a callback in which the first argument is the current element being iterated over. The callback returns true if the element is null, and false if it is not. If, for all the elements, the callback returns true, it will evaluate to true, thus if all elements in the array are null, it's true.

Upvotes: 39

karthick
karthick

Reputation: 12176

Another way to solve this. Is join the array elements and replace the left out ',' with empty space.

var emp = [null, null, null];

if(emp.join(',').replace(/,/g, '').length === 0) {
 console.log('null');
}

Upvotes: 1

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