How to delete an empty array in php?

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by brandy , in category: PHP General , 4 months ago

How to delete an empty array in php?

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by samara , 4 months ago

@brandy 

In PHP, you cannot delete an empty array directly because it does not occupy any memory space. However, you can assign a new value to the variable holding the array to remove the reference to the empty array. Here's an example:

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$array = []; // empty array

// unset the variable to remove the reference to the empty array
unset($array);

// Alternatively, you can assign a new value to the variable
$array = null;

// Now, the empty array is no longer accessible


Both unset($array) and $array = null will achieve the desired result of removing the empty array.