Remove an entry from an array of strings

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JavaScript (Server)

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Author

Mark Leusink

Submitted on

January 5, 2012 at 5:02 AM

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Notes

The splice function doesn't work in SSJS. This code will extend the array object in SSJS with a new method that will remove a specific entry from a array of strings.

Usage:

var myArray = ["entry 1", "entry 2", "entry 3"];

var myNewArray = myArray.removeEntry("entry 2"); // myNewArray now contains 2 entries: "entry 1" and "entry 2"

//remove an entry (string) from a list of strings
Array.prototype.removeEntry = function( entry:String ) {

	if ( @IsNotMember(entry, this)) {
		return this;
	}
			
	var res = @Trim( @Replace(this, entry, "") );
	return (typeof res == "string" ? (res.length==0 ? [] : [res]) : res);
	
}

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yunus myunus

(at 08:54 on 11.02.2019)

this works great in 2019 :) saved me

Steve Smillie

(at 14:46 on 24.04.2013)

Thanks!!
I thought I was going crazy, until I realized that splice on an a array in SSJS was the problem.
This worked well to remove from an array.