I want to find duplicates in a multidimensional array and then echo out which one who has duplicates and which not. I've tried this code.
$teams = array
(
"grupp_A" => array('Arsenal','Arsenal','Barcelona'),
"grupp_B" => array('Milan','Man United','Barcelona'),
"grupp_C" => array('Juventus','Barcelona','Barcelona'),
"grupp_D" => array('Arsenal','Man United','Barcelona')
);
foreach ( $teams as $key => $val ) {
foreach($val as $k => $v) {
if(count(array_unique($k))<count($k))
{
echo "Array: $v has duplicates<br>";
}
else
{
echo "Array: $v does not have duplicates<br>";
}
}
}
Then I get the result
Array: Arsenal has duplicates
Array: Arsenal has duplicates
Array: Barcelona has duplicates
Array: Milan has duplicates
Array: Man United has duplicates
Array: Barcelona has duplicates
Array: Juventus has duplicates
Array: Barcelona has duplicates
Array: Barcelona has duplicates
Array: Arsenal has duplicates
Array: Man United has duplicates
Array: Barcelona has duplicates
But the result should look like this.
Array: grupp_A has duplicates
Array: grupp_C has duplicates
Array: grupp_B does not have duplicates
Array: grupp_D does not have duplicates
I'm stuck and don't know what I do wrong and need some help here.
I tried this code with in_array as suggested.
foreach ( $teams as $key => $val ) {
if (in_array($key, $val)) {
echo "Array: $key has duplicates<br>";
}
else
{
echo "Array: $key does not have duplicates<br>";
}
}
Which gave the output
Array: grupp_A does not have duplicates
Array: grupp_B does not have duplicates
Array: grupp_C does not have duplicates
Array: grupp_D does not have duplicates
A bit closer but not there yet.
Only one loop is enough, as you aggregate the clubs :
foreach($teams as $group => $clubs)
{
if( count(array_unique($clubs)) < count($clubs) )
echo "Group $group has duplicates" . PHP_EOL ;
else
echo "Group $group has no duplicates" . PHP_EOL ;
}
Output :
Group grupp_A has duplicates
Group grupp_B has no duplicates
Group grupp_C has duplicates
Group grupp_D has no duplicates