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Delete Subarrays With All Values Contained In Other Subarrays (From Same Array)


phdphd

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Hi All,

Suppose I have the following array, with a series of subarrays.

Is there a quicker/better way than the one below to delete the subarrays whose ALL values are contained in another subarray ?

Thanks!

$global_array = array(
  $sub_array1 = array
(
    0 => 8661,
    1 => 8662
),
 
  $sub_array2 = array
(
    0 => 8662
   ),
  $sub_array3 = array
(
    0 => 8667,
    1 => 8770
),
  $sub_array4 = array
(
    0 => 8672,
    1 => 8770,
    2 => 8772,
),
  $sub_array5 = array
(
    0 => 8706,
    1 => 8707,
    2 => 8805,
),
  $sub_array6 = array
(
    0 => 8707,
    1 => 8805
),
  $sub_array7 = array
(
    0 => 8714,
    1 => 8811,
    2 => 8816,
),
  $sub_array8 = array
(
    0 => 8718,
    1 => 8720,
    2 => 8816,
),
  $sub_array9 = array
(
    0 => 8720
 ),
  $sub_array10 = array
(
    0 => 8724,
    1 => 8726,
    2 => 8727,
),
  $sub_array11 = array
(
    
    0 => 8726,
    1 => 8727
),
  $sub_array12 = array
(
    0 => 8727
)

);

print_r($global_array);
$tobedeleted=array();

foreach ($global_array as $k=>$v ){
foreach ($global_array as $k2=>$v2){
    if(($k<>$k2) &&(count($global_array[$k])<=count($global_array[$k2])))
  {
  $count=count(array_diff($global_array[$k], $global_array[$k2]));
   
  
   if($count==0 && !in_array($k,$tobedeleted))
    {
    
    
    $tobedeleted[]=$k;
        
    }
  }   
 }
}
print_r($tobedeleted);
foreach ($tobedeleted as $k=>$v )
{
unset ($global_array[$v]);
}
print_r($global_array);

 

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You could help yourself by sorting the array (or sorting a copy of the array) according to subarray size, then only searching arrays that are at least as large as the one you're processing. Improving efficiency much beyond that will probably result in some non-trivial code that's not really worth it for just 12 subarrays.

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