arrays: if duplicate, remove value

[levivel]

Hello,

I would like to ask for your kind assistance in this difficulty:
I merged two arrays in one. In this merged array, there will be duplicate values. I would like to take those duplicate values and remove them - both, not only the duplicate value, but the original too. At the end, I would like to end up with an array with only values that did not have a duplicate after the merge.

I've been searching for a solution, but this issue seems very similar to removing only the duplicate value and all my results seem to point me to the array_unique function, which does not do what I would like to.

I appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
L

[extrovertive]

[code=php:0]
$data1 = array(1,2,3,4,5,6);
$data2 = array(2,4,6,8);
$data = array_merge($data1, $data2);
$data = array_count_values($data);
foreach($data as $key=>$val)
{
if($val == 1) $uniquedata[] = $key;
}
print_r($uniquedata);
[/code]

[levivel]

works beautifullly, thank you kindly

L

[Barand]

or you could use the [url=http://us2.php.net/array_unique]array_unique()[/url] function

[code]<?php

$data1 = array(1,2,3,4,5,6);
$data2 = array(2,4,6,8);
$data = array_merge($data1, $data2);

$uniquedata = array_unique($data);

echo '<pre>', print_r($uniquedata, true), '</pre>';
?>[/code]

[extrovertive]

Barand, that removes duplicates, but not the entire values that are duplicated.

[Barand]

Could you explain that statement

[extrovertive]

array_unqiue remove duplicates but he/she only wants values that does have not a duplicate when merged.

[Barand]

Got it, I've read the question more closely now instead of leaping in on reading the title. Still on my my first coffee of the morning.

Faster method

[code]foreach ($data2 as $val) {
    if ($k = array_search($val,$data1)) {
        unset ($data1[$k]);
    }
    else $data1[] = $val;
}

echo '<pre>', print_r($data1, true), '</pre>';[/code]