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

function generateRandomString($length = 10) {
    $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $charactersLength = strlen($characters);
    $randomString = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
        $randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)];
    }
    return $randomString;
}

function generateRandomSpaces() {
    $output = '';
    $i = rand(1, 10);
    for ($j = 0; $j <= $i; $j++) {
        $output .= " ";
    }   

    return $output;
}

// Generating an array to test
$array = [];
for ($i = 0; $i <= 1000; $i++) {
    $array[] = generateRandomSpaces() . generateRandomString(10) . generateRandomSpaces(); 
}

// ARRAY MAP
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
    $trimmed_array=array_map('trim',$array);
}
$time = (microtime(true) - $start);
echo "Array map: " . $time . " seconds\n";

// ARRAY WALK
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
    array_walk($array, 'trim');
}
$time = (microtime(true) - $start);
echo "Array walk    : " . $time . " seconds\n"; 

// FOREACH
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
    foreach ($array as $index => $elem) {
        $array[$index] = trim($elem);
    }
}
$time = (microtime(true) - $start);
echo "Foreach: " . $time . " seconds\n";

// FOR
$start = microtime(true);
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
    for ($j = 0; $j < count($array) - 1; $j++) { 
        $array[$j] = trim($array[$j]);
    }
}
$time = (microtime(true) - $start);
echo "For: " . $time . " seconds\n";

The output of the code above is:

Array map: 8.6775720119476 seconds
Array walk: 10.423238992691 seconds
Foreach: 7.3502039909363 seconds
For: 9.8266389369965 seconds

This values of course may change but I would say foreach is the best option.