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henrijs
henrijs

Reputation: 1010

target numeric keys only in array

I have an array with 2 kinds of keys, strings and integers. I want to do foreach() on this array and want to do it for numeric keys only. What is the most elegant way of doing it?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 18172

Answers (4)

Ignacio Segura
Ignacio Segura

Reputation: 698

This one-liner returns a new array with the values and its numeric keys:

$new_array = array_filter($my_array, 'is_int', ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY);

so if we have this:

array(
'fruit' => 'banana'
1 => 'papaya'
)

..we get this:

array(
1 => 'papaya'
)

Upvotes: 6

IjorTengab
IjorTengab

Reputation: 41

Using array_filter you must aware if you have value that similar as FALSE.

This is my solution:

function filterArrayKeyInteger(Array $array) {
    $integer = array_filter($array, function ($key) {
        if ($key === 0 || is_int($key)) {
            return true;
        }
    }, ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY);
    return array_intersect_key($array, $integer);
}

$a = [0, false, 'aa','bb', 'cc', 'dd' => 'dd', '9.9' => 9.9];    
$b = filterArrayKeyInteger($a);

Result of vardump

var_dump(a): array(7) {
  [0]=>
  int(0)
  [1]=>
  bool(false)
  [2]=>
  string(2) "aa"
  [3]=>
  string(2) "bb"
  [4]=>
  string(2) "cc"
  ["dd"]=>
  string(2) "dd"
  ["9.9"]=>
  float(9.9)
}

var_dump(b): array(5) {
  [0]=>
  int(0)
  [1]=>
  bool(false)
  [2]=>
  string(2) "aa"
  [3]=>
  string(2) "bb"
  [4]=>
  string(2) "cc"
}

Upvotes: 1

Michael Berkowski
Michael Berkowski

Reputation: 270687

Here's a complicated method using array_filter() to return the numeric keys then iterate over them. 

// $input_array is your original array with numeric and string keys
// array_filter() returns an array of the numeric keys
// Use an anonymous function if logic beyond a simple built-in filtering function is needed
$numerickeys = array_filter(array_keys($input_array), function($k) {return is_int($k);});

// But in this simple case where the filter function is a plain
// built-in function requiring one argument, it can be passed as a string:
// Really, this is all that's needed:
$numerickeys = array_filter(array_keys($input_array), 'is_int');

foreach ($numerickeys as $key) {
  // do something with $input_array[$key']
}

It's much easier though to just foreach over everything:

foreach ($input_array as $key => $val) {
  if (is_int($key)) {
    // do stuff
  }
}

Edit Misread original post and thought I saw "numeric" rather than "integer" keys. Updated to use is_int() rather than is_numeric().

Upvotes: 30

Ehtesham
Ehtesham

Reputation: 2985

    foreach($array as $key => $val) {
        if(!is_int($key))
             continue;
        // rest of the logic
    }

Upvotes: 11

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