How to remove given item from comma separated list?

Question

$list = 'Mon,Tue,Wed,Thrs,Fri,Sat,Sun';

Is there a regex or a function that will work as follows?

1)"Tue"       return string ->"Mon,Wed,Thrs,Fri,Sat,Sun"
2)"Thrs, Mon"     return string ->"Tue,Wed,Fri,Sat,Sun"
3)"Sun,Wed,Fri"       return string ->"Mon,Tue,Thrs,Sat"
4)"Fri"     return string ->"Mon,Tue,Wed,Thrs,Sat,Sun"

Below works fine for removing just one item from the string. What if I want to remove more than one item like above?

$input = 'Wed';
$list = 'Mon,Tue,Wed,Thrs,Fri,Sat,Sun';
    $array1 = Array($input);
    $array2 = explode(',', $list);
    $array3 = array_diff($array2, $array1);

    $output = implode(',', $array3);

    echo $output;

`function removeElement($list,$data){ return implode(',',array_diff(explode(',',$list),explode(',',$data))); } echo removeElement($list,"Thrs,Mon")` — Narendrasingh Sisodia, Oct 31 '15 at 09:03

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '15 at 08:03

6

Use explode on the $input variable as well:

$input = 'Wed';
$list = 'Mon,Tue,Wed,Thrs,Fri,Sat,Sun';
$array1 = explode(',', $input);
$array2 = explode(',', $list);
$array3 = array_diff($array2, $array1);

$output = implode(',', $array3);

echo $output;

answered Oct 31 '15 at 08:03

hjpotter92

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '15 at 08:08

you can store your list in array or just can explode it if you dnt want

 function weekdays($day){
    $list= array('Mon','Tue','Wed','Thrs','Fri','Sat','Sun');
    if (($key = array_search($day, $list )) !== false) {
        unset($list[$key]);
        return $list;
       }
    }

How to remove given item from comma separated list?

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