Remove empty strings from array while keeping record Without Loop?
JavascriptArraysIndexingStringRemoveallJavascript Problem Overview
This question was asked here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18113243/remove-empty-strings-from-array-while-keeping-record-of-indexes-with-non-empty-s
If you'd notice the given as @Baz layed it out;
"I", "am", "", "still", "here", "", "man"
"and from this I wish to produce the following two arrays:"
"I", "am", "still", "here", "man"
All the Answers to this question referred to a form of looping.
My question: Is there a possibility to remove all index
es with empty
string
without any looping? ... is there any other alternative apart from iterating the array?
May be some regex
or some jQuery
that we are not aware of?
All answers or suggestions are highly appreciated.
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
var arr = ["I", "am", "", "still", "here", "", "man"]
// arr = ["I", "am", "", "still", "here", "", "man"]
arr = arr.filter(Boolean)
// arr = ["I", "am", "still", "here", "man"]
// arr = ["I", "am", "", "still", "here", "", "man"]
arr = arr.filter(v=>v!='');
// arr = ["I", "am", "still", "here", "man"]
Solution 2 - Javascript
var newArray = oldArray.filter(function(v){return v!==''});
Solution 3 - Javascript
PLEASE NOTE: The documentation says:
> filter
is a JavaScript extension to the ECMA-262 standard; as such
> it may not be present in other implementations of the standard. You
> can work around this by inserting the following code at the beginning
> of your scripts, allowing use of filter in ECMA-262 implementations
> which do not natively support it. This algorithm is exactly the one
> specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition, assuming that fn.call evaluates to
> the original value of Function.prototype.call, and that
> Array.prototype.push has its original value.
So, to avoid some heartache, you may have to add this code to your script At the beginning.
if (!Array.prototype.filter) {
Array.prototype.filter = function (fn, context) {
var i,
value,
result = [],
length;
if (!this || typeof fn !== 'function' || (fn instanceof RegExp)) {
throw new TypeError();
}
length = this.length;
for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
if (this.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
value = this[i];
if (fn.call(context, value, i, this)) {
result.push(value);
}
}
}
return result;
};
}
Solution 4 - Javascript
arr = arr.filter(v => v);
as returned v
is implicity converted to truthy
Solution 5 - Javascript
If are using jQuery, grep may be useful:
var arr = [ a, b, c, , e, f, , g, h ];
arr = jQuery.grep(arr, function(n){ return (n); });
arr
is now [ a, b, c, d, e, f, g];
Solution 6 - Javascript
You can use lodash's method, it works for string, number and boolean type
_.compact([0, 1, false, 2, '', 3]);
// => [1, 2, 3]
Solution 7 - Javascript
i.e we need to take multiple email addresses separated by comma, spaces or newline as below.
var emails = EmailText.replace(","," ").replace("\n"," ").replace(" ","").split(" ");
for(var i in emails)
emails[i] = emails[i].replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"");
emails.filter(Boolean);
console.log(emails);