note 53714 added to ref.array

I've been trying to find a clean way of removing an element from the middle of an indexed array and having all the elements above it "fall down" to fill in the gap. There's no array_delete function, only array_(pop|push|shift|unshift). According to the page for array_merge if it is given a single array then it will be re-indexed. Using that information the following simple function does what I wanted: <?php function my_array_delete($array, $item) { if (isset($array[$item])) unset($array[$item]); return array_merge($array); } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+53714 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53714&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53714&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53714&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53714&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53714&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+53714&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php