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

array_map('trim', $data) would convert all subarrays into null. If it is needed to trim spaces only for strings and leave other types as it is, you can use:

$data = array_map(
    function ($item) {
        return is_string($item) ? trim($item) : $item;
    },
    $data
);