How to trim white spaces of array values in php

Question

I have an array as follows

$fruit = array(\'  apple \',\'banana   \', \' , \',     \'            cranberry \');

I want an array which conta

Answer 1

If the array is multidimensional, this will work great:

//trims empty spaces in array elements (recursively trim multidimesional arrays)
function trimData($data){
   if($data == null)
       return null;

   if(is_array($data)){
       return array_map('trimData', $data);
   }else return trim($data);
}

one sample test is like this:

$arr=[" aaa ", " b  ", "m    ", ["  .e  ", "    12 3", "9 0    0 0   "]];
print_r(trimData($arr));
//RESULT
//Array ( [0] => aaa [1] => b [2] => m [3] => Array ( [0] => .e [1] => 12 3 [2] => 9 0 0 0 ) )