Walking the array
May 26, 2010
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There are times that you want to apply some filtering or modifications to all items in an array, but you don't want to build a new array and wan't to keep the array intact. The array_walk php function can be used to accomplish this. The array_walk function takes the following arguments.
bool array_walk ( array &$array , callback $funcname [, mixed $userdata ] )
The array to work on, a function name to run on each item of an array, and an optional argument for additional parameters to supply to your callback function.
Here is an example:
$arr = array(
'item 1',
'item 2 ',
'item 3'
);
function trim_arr(&$arr_item ,$key) {
$arr_item = trim($arr_item);
}
array_walk($arr,'trim_arr');
The above example will trim whitespace off the front and back of each string in the array.
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