Re: [PHP] check if any element of an array is not "empty"

At 3:36 PM -0500 4/30/08, afan pasalic wrote:
>hi,
>as a result of one calculation I'm receiving an array where elements
>could be 0 or date (as string yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss).
>I have to check if any of elements of the array is "date" or if all
>elements of the array is 0?
>
>If I try array_sum($result) I'll get 0 no matter what (0 + $string = 0).
>
>I know I can do something like:
>foreach($result as $value)
>{
>     if ($value !=0)
>     {
>        $alert = true;
>     }
>}
>
>or
>
>if (in_array($result, '-'))
>{
>     $alert = true;
>}
>
>
>but I was thinking if there is the function does that.
>
>thanks for any help.
>
>-afan


You can create an empty array and check to see if the difference via 
array_diff.

Cheers,

tedd
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