I have the following for loop, and when I use splice() to remove an item, I then get that 'seconds' is undefined. I could check if it's undefined, but I feel there's probably a more elegant way to do this. The desire is to simply delete an item and keep on going.
for (i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
The array is being re-indexed when you do a .splice(), which means you'll skip over an index when one is removed, and your cached .length is obsolete.
To fix it, you'd either need to decrement i after a .splice(), or simply iterate in reverse...
var i = Auction.auctions.length
while (i--) {
...
if (...) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
This way the re-indexing doesn't affect the next item in the iteration, since the indexing affects only the items from the current point to the end of the Array, and the next item in the iteration is lower than the current point.
This is a pretty common issue. The solution is to loop backwards:
for (var i = Auction.auctions.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
Auction.auctions[i].seconds--;
if (Auction.auctions[i].seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
It doesn't matter if you're popping them off of the end because the indices will be preserved as you go backwards.
Recalculate the length each time through the loop instead of just at the outset, e.g.:
for (i = 0; i < Auction.auctions.length; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
i--; //decrement
}
}
That way you won't exceed the bounds.
EDIT: added a decrement in the if statement.
Although your question is about deleting elements from the array being iterated upon and not about removing elements (in addition to some other processing) efficiently, I think one should reconsider it if in similar situation.
The algorithmic complexity of this approach is O(n^2) as splice function and the for loop both iterate over the array (splice function shifts all elements of array in the worst case). Instead you can just push the required elements to the new array and then just assign that array to the desired variable (which was just iterated upon).
var newArray = [];
for (var i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
auction.seconds--;
if (!auction.seconds < 0) {
newArray.push(auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newArray;
Since ES2015 we can use Array.prototype.filter to fit it all in one line:
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(auction => --auction.seconds >= 0);
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(function(el) {
return --el["seconds"] > 0;
});
If you are e using ES6+ - why not just use Array.filter method?
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter((auction) => {
auction['seconds'] --;
return (auction.seconds > 0)
})
Note that modifying the array element during filter iteration only works for objects and will not work for array of primitive values.
Here is a simple linear time solution to this simple linear time problem.
When I run this snippet, with n = 1 million, each call to filterInPlace() takes .013 to .016 seconds. A quadratic solution (e.g. the accepted answer) would take a million times that, or so.
// Remove from array every item such that !condition(item).
function filterInPlace(array, condition) {
var iOut = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
if (condition(array[i]))
array[iOut++] = array[i];
array.length = iOut;
}
// Try it out. A quadratic solution would take a very long time.
var n = 1*1000*1000;
console.log("constructing array...");
var Auction = {auctions: []};
for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:1});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:2});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:0});
}
console.log("array length should be "+(3*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+(2*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+n+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be 0: ", Auction.auctions.length)
Note that this modifies the original array in place rather than creating a new array; doing it in place like this can be advantageous, e.g. in the case that the array is the program's single memory bottleneck; in that case, you don't want to create another array of the same size, even temporarily.
The normal for loop is more familiar for me, I just need to decrement the index each time I remove an item from the array
//5 trues , 5 falses
var arr1 = [false, false, true, true, false, true, false, true, true, false];
//remove falses from array
for (var i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++){
if (arr1[i] === false){
arr1.splice(i, 1);
i--;// decrement index if item is removed
}
}
console.log(arr1);// should be 5 trues
Another simple solution to digest an array elements once:
while(Auction.auctions.length){
// From first to last...
var auction = Auction.auctions.shift();
// From last to first...
var auction = Auction.auctions.pop();
// Do stuff with auction
}
Here is another example for the proper use of splice. This example is about to remove 'attribute' from 'array'.
for (var i = array.length; i--;) {
if (array[i] === 'attribute') {
array.splice(i, 1);
}
}
why waste cpu cycles on .splice? that operation has to go through the whole loop again and again to remove an element in an array.
why not just use traditional 2 flags in one loop?
const elements = [1, 5, 5, 3, 5, 2, 4];
const remove = 5
i = 0
for(let j = 0; j < elements.length; j++){
if (elements[j] !== remove) {
elements[i] = elements[j]
i++
}
}
elements.length = i
Try to relay an array into newArray when looping:
var auctions = Auction.auctions;
var auctionIndex;
var auction;
var newAuctions = [];
for (
auctionIndex = 0;
auctionIndex < Auction.auctions.length;
auctionIndex++) {
auction = auctions[auctionIndex];
if (auction.seconds >= 0) {
newAuctions.push(
auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newAuctions;
Give this a try
RemoveItems.forEach((i, j) => {
OriginalItems.splice((i - j), 1);
});
Deleting Parameters
oldJson=[{firstName:'s1',lastName:'v1'},
{firstName:'s2',lastName:'v2'},
{firstName:'s3',lastName:'v3'}]
newJson = oldJson.map(({...ele}) => {
delete ele.firstName;
return ele;
})
it deletes and and create new array and as we are using spread operator on each objects so the original array objects are also remains unharmed
Two examples that work:
Example ONE
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
for (var l = temp_products_images.length; l--;) {
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
Example TWO
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
let l = temp_products_images.length
while (l--)
{
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
There are lot of wonderful answers on this thread already. However I wanted to share my experience when I tried to solve "remove nth element from array" in ES5 context.
JavaScript arrays have different methods to add/remove elements from start or end. These are:
arr.push(ele) - To add element(s) at the end of the array
arr.unshift(ele) - To add element(s) at the beginning of the array
arr.pop() - To remove last element from the array
arr.shift() - To remove first element from the array
Essentially none of the above methods can be used directly to remove nth element from the array.
A fact worth noting is that this is in contrast with java iterator's
using which it is possible to remove nth element for a collection
while iterating.
This basically leaves us with only one array method Array.splice to perform removal of nth element (there are other things you could do with these methods as well, but in the context of this question I am focusing on removal of elements):
Array.splice(index,1) - removes the element at the index
Here is the code copied from original answer (with comments):
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter else it would run into IndexOutBounds exception
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
//splice modifies the original array
arr.splice(i, 1); //never runs into IndexOutBounds exception
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
} else {
console.log("Element not removed. arr: ");
}
console.log(arr);
}
Another noteworthy method is Array.slice. However the return type of this method is the removed elements. Also this doesn't modify original array. Modified code snippet as follows:
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
console.log(arr.slice(i, i + 1));
console.log("Original array: ");
console.log(arr);
}
}
Having said that, we can still use Array.slice to remove nth element as shown below. However it is lot more code (hence inefficient)
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Array after removal of ith element: ");
arr = arr.slice(0, i).concat(arr.slice(i + 1));
console.log(arr);
}
}
The Array.slice method is extremely important to achieve
immutability in functional programming à la redux
You can just look through and use shift()
Related
I have the following for loop, and when I use splice() to remove an item, I then get that 'seconds' is undefined. I could check if it's undefined, but I feel there's probably a more elegant way to do this. The desire is to simply delete an item and keep on going.
for (i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
The array is being re-indexed when you do a .splice(), which means you'll skip over an index when one is removed, and your cached .length is obsolete.
To fix it, you'd either need to decrement i after a .splice(), or simply iterate in reverse...
var i = Auction.auctions.length
while (i--) {
...
if (...) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
This way the re-indexing doesn't affect the next item in the iteration, since the indexing affects only the items from the current point to the end of the Array, and the next item in the iteration is lower than the current point.
This is a pretty common issue. The solution is to loop backwards:
for (var i = Auction.auctions.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
Auction.auctions[i].seconds--;
if (Auction.auctions[i].seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
It doesn't matter if you're popping them off of the end because the indices will be preserved as you go backwards.
Recalculate the length each time through the loop instead of just at the outset, e.g.:
for (i = 0; i < Auction.auctions.length; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
i--; //decrement
}
}
That way you won't exceed the bounds.
EDIT: added a decrement in the if statement.
Although your question is about deleting elements from the array being iterated upon and not about removing elements (in addition to some other processing) efficiently, I think one should reconsider it if in similar situation.
The algorithmic complexity of this approach is O(n^2) as splice function and the for loop both iterate over the array (splice function shifts all elements of array in the worst case). Instead you can just push the required elements to the new array and then just assign that array to the desired variable (which was just iterated upon).
var newArray = [];
for (var i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
auction.seconds--;
if (!auction.seconds < 0) {
newArray.push(auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newArray;
Since ES2015 we can use Array.prototype.filter to fit it all in one line:
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(auction => --auction.seconds >= 0);
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(function(el) {
return --el["seconds"] > 0;
});
If you are e using ES6+ - why not just use Array.filter method?
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter((auction) => {
auction['seconds'] --;
return (auction.seconds > 0)
})
Note that modifying the array element during filter iteration only works for objects and will not work for array of primitive values.
Here is a simple linear time solution to this simple linear time problem.
When I run this snippet, with n = 1 million, each call to filterInPlace() takes .013 to .016 seconds. A quadratic solution (e.g. the accepted answer) would take a million times that, or so.
// Remove from array every item such that !condition(item).
function filterInPlace(array, condition) {
var iOut = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
if (condition(array[i]))
array[iOut++] = array[i];
array.length = iOut;
}
// Try it out. A quadratic solution would take a very long time.
var n = 1*1000*1000;
console.log("constructing array...");
var Auction = {auctions: []};
for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:1});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:2});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:0});
}
console.log("array length should be "+(3*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+(2*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+n+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be 0: ", Auction.auctions.length)
Note that this modifies the original array in place rather than creating a new array; doing it in place like this can be advantageous, e.g. in the case that the array is the program's single memory bottleneck; in that case, you don't want to create another array of the same size, even temporarily.
The normal for loop is more familiar for me, I just need to decrement the index each time I remove an item from the array
//5 trues , 5 falses
var arr1 = [false, false, true, true, false, true, false, true, true, false];
//remove falses from array
for (var i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++){
if (arr1[i] === false){
arr1.splice(i, 1);
i--;// decrement index if item is removed
}
}
console.log(arr1);// should be 5 trues
Another simple solution to digest an array elements once:
while(Auction.auctions.length){
// From first to last...
var auction = Auction.auctions.shift();
// From last to first...
var auction = Auction.auctions.pop();
// Do stuff with auction
}
Here is another example for the proper use of splice. This example is about to remove 'attribute' from 'array'.
for (var i = array.length; i--;) {
if (array[i] === 'attribute') {
array.splice(i, 1);
}
}
why waste cpu cycles on .splice? that operation has to go through the whole loop again and again to remove an element in an array.
why not just use traditional 2 flags in one loop?
const elements = [1, 5, 5, 3, 5, 2, 4];
const remove = 5
i = 0
for(let j = 0; j < elements.length; j++){
if (elements[j] !== remove) {
elements[i] = elements[j]
i++
}
}
elements.length = i
Try to relay an array into newArray when looping:
var auctions = Auction.auctions;
var auctionIndex;
var auction;
var newAuctions = [];
for (
auctionIndex = 0;
auctionIndex < Auction.auctions.length;
auctionIndex++) {
auction = auctions[auctionIndex];
if (auction.seconds >= 0) {
newAuctions.push(
auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newAuctions;
Give this a try
RemoveItems.forEach((i, j) => {
OriginalItems.splice((i - j), 1);
});
Deleting Parameters
oldJson=[{firstName:'s1',lastName:'v1'},
{firstName:'s2',lastName:'v2'},
{firstName:'s3',lastName:'v3'}]
newJson = oldJson.map(({...ele}) => {
delete ele.firstName;
return ele;
})
it deletes and and create new array and as we are using spread operator on each objects so the original array objects are also remains unharmed
Two examples that work:
Example ONE
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
for (var l = temp_products_images.length; l--;) {
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
Example TWO
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
let l = temp_products_images.length
while (l--)
{
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
There are lot of wonderful answers on this thread already. However I wanted to share my experience when I tried to solve "remove nth element from array" in ES5 context.
JavaScript arrays have different methods to add/remove elements from start or end. These are:
arr.push(ele) - To add element(s) at the end of the array
arr.unshift(ele) - To add element(s) at the beginning of the array
arr.pop() - To remove last element from the array
arr.shift() - To remove first element from the array
Essentially none of the above methods can be used directly to remove nth element from the array.
A fact worth noting is that this is in contrast with java iterator's
using which it is possible to remove nth element for a collection
while iterating.
This basically leaves us with only one array method Array.splice to perform removal of nth element (there are other things you could do with these methods as well, but in the context of this question I am focusing on removal of elements):
Array.splice(index,1) - removes the element at the index
Here is the code copied from original answer (with comments):
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter else it would run into IndexOutBounds exception
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
//splice modifies the original array
arr.splice(i, 1); //never runs into IndexOutBounds exception
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
} else {
console.log("Element not removed. arr: ");
}
console.log(arr);
}
Another noteworthy method is Array.slice. However the return type of this method is the removed elements. Also this doesn't modify original array. Modified code snippet as follows:
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
console.log(arr.slice(i, i + 1));
console.log("Original array: ");
console.log(arr);
}
}
Having said that, we can still use Array.slice to remove nth element as shown below. However it is lot more code (hence inefficient)
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Array after removal of ith element: ");
arr = arr.slice(0, i).concat(arr.slice(i + 1));
console.log(arr);
}
}
The Array.slice method is extremely important to achieve
immutability in functional programming à la redux
You can just look through and use shift()
I have the following for loop, and when I use splice() to remove an item, I then get that 'seconds' is undefined. I could check if it's undefined, but I feel there's probably a more elegant way to do this. The desire is to simply delete an item and keep on going.
for (i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
The array is being re-indexed when you do a .splice(), which means you'll skip over an index when one is removed, and your cached .length is obsolete.
To fix it, you'd either need to decrement i after a .splice(), or simply iterate in reverse...
var i = Auction.auctions.length
while (i--) {
...
if (...) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
This way the re-indexing doesn't affect the next item in the iteration, since the indexing affects only the items from the current point to the end of the Array, and the next item in the iteration is lower than the current point.
This is a pretty common issue. The solution is to loop backwards:
for (var i = Auction.auctions.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
Auction.auctions[i].seconds--;
if (Auction.auctions[i].seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
It doesn't matter if you're popping them off of the end because the indices will be preserved as you go backwards.
Recalculate the length each time through the loop instead of just at the outset, e.g.:
for (i = 0; i < Auction.auctions.length; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
i--; //decrement
}
}
That way you won't exceed the bounds.
EDIT: added a decrement in the if statement.
Although your question is about deleting elements from the array being iterated upon and not about removing elements (in addition to some other processing) efficiently, I think one should reconsider it if in similar situation.
The algorithmic complexity of this approach is O(n^2) as splice function and the for loop both iterate over the array (splice function shifts all elements of array in the worst case). Instead you can just push the required elements to the new array and then just assign that array to the desired variable (which was just iterated upon).
var newArray = [];
for (var i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
auction.seconds--;
if (!auction.seconds < 0) {
newArray.push(auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newArray;
Since ES2015 we can use Array.prototype.filter to fit it all in one line:
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(auction => --auction.seconds >= 0);
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(function(el) {
return --el["seconds"] > 0;
});
If you are e using ES6+ - why not just use Array.filter method?
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter((auction) => {
auction['seconds'] --;
return (auction.seconds > 0)
})
Note that modifying the array element during filter iteration only works for objects and will not work for array of primitive values.
Here is a simple linear time solution to this simple linear time problem.
When I run this snippet, with n = 1 million, each call to filterInPlace() takes .013 to .016 seconds. A quadratic solution (e.g. the accepted answer) would take a million times that, or so.
// Remove from array every item such that !condition(item).
function filterInPlace(array, condition) {
var iOut = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
if (condition(array[i]))
array[iOut++] = array[i];
array.length = iOut;
}
// Try it out. A quadratic solution would take a very long time.
var n = 1*1000*1000;
console.log("constructing array...");
var Auction = {auctions: []};
for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:1});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:2});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:0});
}
console.log("array length should be "+(3*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+(2*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+n+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be 0: ", Auction.auctions.length)
Note that this modifies the original array in place rather than creating a new array; doing it in place like this can be advantageous, e.g. in the case that the array is the program's single memory bottleneck; in that case, you don't want to create another array of the same size, even temporarily.
The normal for loop is more familiar for me, I just need to decrement the index each time I remove an item from the array
//5 trues , 5 falses
var arr1 = [false, false, true, true, false, true, false, true, true, false];
//remove falses from array
for (var i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++){
if (arr1[i] === false){
arr1.splice(i, 1);
i--;// decrement index if item is removed
}
}
console.log(arr1);// should be 5 trues
Another simple solution to digest an array elements once:
while(Auction.auctions.length){
// From first to last...
var auction = Auction.auctions.shift();
// From last to first...
var auction = Auction.auctions.pop();
// Do stuff with auction
}
Here is another example for the proper use of splice. This example is about to remove 'attribute' from 'array'.
for (var i = array.length; i--;) {
if (array[i] === 'attribute') {
array.splice(i, 1);
}
}
why waste cpu cycles on .splice? that operation has to go through the whole loop again and again to remove an element in an array.
why not just use traditional 2 flags in one loop?
const elements = [1, 5, 5, 3, 5, 2, 4];
const remove = 5
i = 0
for(let j = 0; j < elements.length; j++){
if (elements[j] !== remove) {
elements[i] = elements[j]
i++
}
}
elements.length = i
Try to relay an array into newArray when looping:
var auctions = Auction.auctions;
var auctionIndex;
var auction;
var newAuctions = [];
for (
auctionIndex = 0;
auctionIndex < Auction.auctions.length;
auctionIndex++) {
auction = auctions[auctionIndex];
if (auction.seconds >= 0) {
newAuctions.push(
auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newAuctions;
Give this a try
RemoveItems.forEach((i, j) => {
OriginalItems.splice((i - j), 1);
});
Deleting Parameters
oldJson=[{firstName:'s1',lastName:'v1'},
{firstName:'s2',lastName:'v2'},
{firstName:'s3',lastName:'v3'}]
newJson = oldJson.map(({...ele}) => {
delete ele.firstName;
return ele;
})
it deletes and and create new array and as we are using spread operator on each objects so the original array objects are also remains unharmed
Two examples that work:
Example ONE
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
for (var l = temp_products_images.length; l--;) {
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
Example TWO
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
let l = temp_products_images.length
while (l--)
{
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
There are lot of wonderful answers on this thread already. However I wanted to share my experience when I tried to solve "remove nth element from array" in ES5 context.
JavaScript arrays have different methods to add/remove elements from start or end. These are:
arr.push(ele) - To add element(s) at the end of the array
arr.unshift(ele) - To add element(s) at the beginning of the array
arr.pop() - To remove last element from the array
arr.shift() - To remove first element from the array
Essentially none of the above methods can be used directly to remove nth element from the array.
A fact worth noting is that this is in contrast with java iterator's
using which it is possible to remove nth element for a collection
while iterating.
This basically leaves us with only one array method Array.splice to perform removal of nth element (there are other things you could do with these methods as well, but in the context of this question I am focusing on removal of elements):
Array.splice(index,1) - removes the element at the index
Here is the code copied from original answer (with comments):
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter else it would run into IndexOutBounds exception
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
//splice modifies the original array
arr.splice(i, 1); //never runs into IndexOutBounds exception
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
} else {
console.log("Element not removed. arr: ");
}
console.log(arr);
}
Another noteworthy method is Array.slice. However the return type of this method is the removed elements. Also this doesn't modify original array. Modified code snippet as follows:
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
console.log(arr.slice(i, i + 1));
console.log("Original array: ");
console.log(arr);
}
}
Having said that, we can still use Array.slice to remove nth element as shown below. However it is lot more code (hence inefficient)
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Array after removal of ith element: ");
arr = arr.slice(0, i).concat(arr.slice(i + 1));
console.log(arr);
}
}
The Array.slice method is extremely important to achieve
immutability in functional programming à la redux
You can just look through and use shift()
I have the following for loop, and when I use splice() to remove an item, I then get that 'seconds' is undefined. I could check if it's undefined, but I feel there's probably a more elegant way to do this. The desire is to simply delete an item and keep on going.
for (i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
The array is being re-indexed when you do a .splice(), which means you'll skip over an index when one is removed, and your cached .length is obsolete.
To fix it, you'd either need to decrement i after a .splice(), or simply iterate in reverse...
var i = Auction.auctions.length
while (i--) {
...
if (...) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
This way the re-indexing doesn't affect the next item in the iteration, since the indexing affects only the items from the current point to the end of the Array, and the next item in the iteration is lower than the current point.
This is a pretty common issue. The solution is to loop backwards:
for (var i = Auction.auctions.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
Auction.auctions[i].seconds--;
if (Auction.auctions[i].seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
}
}
It doesn't matter if you're popping them off of the end because the indices will be preserved as you go backwards.
Recalculate the length each time through the loop instead of just at the outset, e.g.:
for (i = 0; i < Auction.auctions.length; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
Auction.auctions[i]['seconds'] --;
if (auction.seconds < 0) {
Auction.auctions.splice(i, 1);
i--; //decrement
}
}
That way you won't exceed the bounds.
EDIT: added a decrement in the if statement.
Although your question is about deleting elements from the array being iterated upon and not about removing elements (in addition to some other processing) efficiently, I think one should reconsider it if in similar situation.
The algorithmic complexity of this approach is O(n^2) as splice function and the for loop both iterate over the array (splice function shifts all elements of array in the worst case). Instead you can just push the required elements to the new array and then just assign that array to the desired variable (which was just iterated upon).
var newArray = [];
for (var i = 0, len = Auction.auctions.length; i < len; i++) {
auction = Auction.auctions[i];
auction.seconds--;
if (!auction.seconds < 0) {
newArray.push(auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newArray;
Since ES2015 we can use Array.prototype.filter to fit it all in one line:
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(auction => --auction.seconds >= 0);
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter(function(el) {
return --el["seconds"] > 0;
});
If you are e using ES6+ - why not just use Array.filter method?
Auction.auctions = Auction.auctions.filter((auction) => {
auction['seconds'] --;
return (auction.seconds > 0)
})
Note that modifying the array element during filter iteration only works for objects and will not work for array of primitive values.
Here is a simple linear time solution to this simple linear time problem.
When I run this snippet, with n = 1 million, each call to filterInPlace() takes .013 to .016 seconds. A quadratic solution (e.g. the accepted answer) would take a million times that, or so.
// Remove from array every item such that !condition(item).
function filterInPlace(array, condition) {
var iOut = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
if (condition(array[i]))
array[iOut++] = array[i];
array.length = iOut;
}
// Try it out. A quadratic solution would take a very long time.
var n = 1*1000*1000;
console.log("constructing array...");
var Auction = {auctions: []};
for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:1});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:2});
Auction.auctions.push({seconds:0});
}
console.log("array length should be "+(3*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+(2*n)+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be "+n+": ", Auction.auctions.length)
filterInPlace(Auction.auctions, function(auction) {return --auction.seconds >= 0; })
console.log("array length should be 0: ", Auction.auctions.length)
Note that this modifies the original array in place rather than creating a new array; doing it in place like this can be advantageous, e.g. in the case that the array is the program's single memory bottleneck; in that case, you don't want to create another array of the same size, even temporarily.
The normal for loop is more familiar for me, I just need to decrement the index each time I remove an item from the array
//5 trues , 5 falses
var arr1 = [false, false, true, true, false, true, false, true, true, false];
//remove falses from array
for (var i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++){
if (arr1[i] === false){
arr1.splice(i, 1);
i--;// decrement index if item is removed
}
}
console.log(arr1);// should be 5 trues
Another simple solution to digest an array elements once:
while(Auction.auctions.length){
// From first to last...
var auction = Auction.auctions.shift();
// From last to first...
var auction = Auction.auctions.pop();
// Do stuff with auction
}
Here is another example for the proper use of splice. This example is about to remove 'attribute' from 'array'.
for (var i = array.length; i--;) {
if (array[i] === 'attribute') {
array.splice(i, 1);
}
}
why waste cpu cycles on .splice? that operation has to go through the whole loop again and again to remove an element in an array.
why not just use traditional 2 flags in one loop?
const elements = [1, 5, 5, 3, 5, 2, 4];
const remove = 5
i = 0
for(let j = 0; j < elements.length; j++){
if (elements[j] !== remove) {
elements[i] = elements[j]
i++
}
}
elements.length = i
Try to relay an array into newArray when looping:
var auctions = Auction.auctions;
var auctionIndex;
var auction;
var newAuctions = [];
for (
auctionIndex = 0;
auctionIndex < Auction.auctions.length;
auctionIndex++) {
auction = auctions[auctionIndex];
if (auction.seconds >= 0) {
newAuctions.push(
auction);
}
}
Auction.auctions = newAuctions;
Give this a try
RemoveItems.forEach((i, j) => {
OriginalItems.splice((i - j), 1);
});
Deleting Parameters
oldJson=[{firstName:'s1',lastName:'v1'},
{firstName:'s2',lastName:'v2'},
{firstName:'s3',lastName:'v3'}]
newJson = oldJson.map(({...ele}) => {
delete ele.firstName;
return ele;
})
it deletes and and create new array and as we are using spread operator on each objects so the original array objects are also remains unharmed
Two examples that work:
Example ONE
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
for (var l = temp_products_images.length; l--;) {
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
Example TWO
// Remove from Listing the Items Checked in Checkbox for Delete
let temp_products_images = store.state.c_products.products_images
if (temp_products_images != null) {
let l = temp_products_images.length
while (l--)
{
// 'mark' is the checkbox field
if (temp_products_images[l].mark == true) {
store.state.c_products.products_images.splice(l,1); // THIS WORKS
// this.$delete(store.state.c_products.products_images,l); // THIS ALSO WORKS
}
}
}
There are lot of wonderful answers on this thread already. However I wanted to share my experience when I tried to solve "remove nth element from array" in ES5 context.
JavaScript arrays have different methods to add/remove elements from start or end. These are:
arr.push(ele) - To add element(s) at the end of the array
arr.unshift(ele) - To add element(s) at the beginning of the array
arr.pop() - To remove last element from the array
arr.shift() - To remove first element from the array
Essentially none of the above methods can be used directly to remove nth element from the array.
A fact worth noting is that this is in contrast with java iterator's
using which it is possible to remove nth element for a collection
while iterating.
This basically leaves us with only one array method Array.splice to perform removal of nth element (there are other things you could do with these methods as well, but in the context of this question I am focusing on removal of elements):
Array.splice(index,1) - removes the element at the index
Here is the code copied from original answer (with comments):
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter else it would run into IndexOutBounds exception
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
//splice modifies the original array
arr.splice(i, 1); //never runs into IndexOutBounds exception
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
} else {
console.log("Element not removed. arr: ");
}
console.log(arr);
}
Another noteworthy method is Array.slice. However the return type of this method is the removed elements. Also this doesn't modify original array. Modified code snippet as follows:
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Element removed. arr: ");
console.log(arr.slice(i, i + 1));
console.log("Original array: ");
console.log(arr);
}
}
Having said that, we can still use Array.slice to remove nth element as shown below. However it is lot more code (hence inefficient)
var arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
var i = arr.length; //initialize counter to array length
while (i--) //decrement counter
{
if (arr[i] === "four" || arr[i] === "two") {
console.log("Array after removal of ith element: ");
arr = arr.slice(0, i).concat(arr.slice(i + 1));
console.log(arr);
}
}
The Array.slice method is extremely important to achieve
immutability in functional programming à la redux
You can just look through and use shift()
I'm working on a leetCode exercise and I have no idea why a decreasing for loop is working but the same exact code with an increasing one is not. Can someone explain why?. This is the problem:
Given an array nums and a value val, remove all instances of that value in-place and return the new length.
Do not allocate extra space for another array, you must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.
The order of elements can be changed. It doesn't matter what you leave beyond the new length.
//not working
var removeElement = function(nums, val) {
for(let i = nums.length -1; i >= 0; i--){
if(val == nums[i]) {
nums.splice(i, 1);
}
}
return nums.length;
};
//working
var removeElement = function(nums, val) {
for (let i = nums.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
if (nums[i] == val){
nums.splice(i, 1);
}
}
return nums.length;
};
This is a well known problem with mutating an array "in place", and working backwards is the standard workaround.
Whenever you remove the current element you modify the indices of any element from that point forwards.
In particular, if you're working forwards then when removing element i you then need to reconsider that element in the next pass, because what was element i + 1 before the splice is now element i, so you have to skip the increment:
const removeElement = function(nums, val) {
for (let i = 0; i < nums.length; ) {
if (val === nums[i]) {
nums.splice(i, 1);
} else {
++i;
}
}
return nums.length;
};
Working backwards avoids the problem, because you've already seen those (now renumbered) elements.
Wondering why i needed to add 4 to the array length in order for it to print out the entire array in reverse?
before i added 4 it was just using the .length property and it was only printing out 6543.
thanks in advance!
function reverseArray(array) {
var newArray =[];
for(var i = 0; i <= array.length+4; i++) {
newArray += array.pop(i);
}
return newArray;
}
var numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
console.log(reverseArray(numbers));
array.pop removes (and returns) the last element. This affects the length of the array. The length is checked on every iteration, so since the array is getting shorter every time, the loop is ended early.
You can create a loop and pop items until it is empty, but another thing to take into account, is that it is the original array you are altering. I think a function like reverseArray shouldn't alter the array numbers that was passed to it if it returns another one. So a better solution would be a simple loop that iterates over all items without modifying the array.
function reverseArray(array)
{
var newArray =[];
for (var i = array.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
newArray.push(array[i]);
}
return newArray;
}
var numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
console.log(reverseArray(numbers));
console.log(numbers); // Should be unaltered.
If you don't mind modifying the array, you can use the reverse() method of the array:
var numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
numbers.reverse();
console.log(numbers);
In Javascript, pop always removes the last element of the array. This shortens length, meaning that i and array.length were converging.
You can do a few things to avoid this behavior:
Store the original length when you start the loop: for (var i = 0 , l = array.length; i < l; i++)
Copy over values without modifying the original array
When you pop the items from the array, the item is removed from the array. As you increase the counter and decrease the length, they will meet halfway, so you get only half of the items.
Use push to put the items in the result. If you use += it will produce a string instead of an array.
If you use pop, then you can just loop while there are any items left in the array:
function reverseArray(array) {
var newArray = [];
while (array.length > 0) {
newArray.push(array.pop());
}
return newArray;
}
You can leave the original array unchanged by looping through it backwards and add items to the new array:
function reverseArray(array) {
var newArray = [];
for (var i = array.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
newArray.push(array[i]);
}
return newArray;
}
use following method for same output
function reverseArray(array)
{
var newArray =[];
var j = array.length-1;
for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i++)
{
newArray[j]= array[i]; j--;
}
return newArray;
}
var numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
console.log(reverseArray(numbers));