Below code should return empty array but it is returning Banana,Banana,Banana
const fruits = ["Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana"];
fruits.map((ele) => {
if (ele === "Banana") {
fruits.splice(0, 1)
}
})
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = fruits;
<div id="demo"></div>
This is actually doing what you're telling it.
An implementation of array.map could be like this:
array.prototype.map = function(transform) {
let output = [];
for(let index = 0; index < this.length; ++index) {
output.push(transform(this[index]));
}
return output;
}
The loop would go like this:
Index = 0, length = 6, remove first itemIndex = 1, length = 5, remove first remaining itemIndex = 2, length = 4, remove first remaining itemIndex = 3, length = 3, terminate loopThis is why it is only removing three items.
The upshot of this is that array.map is the inappropriate function for the job.
There's a number of ways you can implement this. One way is to iterate through the array backwards:
for(let index = fruits.length-1; index >= 0; --index) {
if(fruits[index] === 'Banana') {
fruits.splice(index, 1);
}
}
An example:
const fruits = ["Banana", "Apple", "Banana", "Banana", "Orange", "Banana"];
for(let index = fruits.length-1; index >= 0; --index) {
if(fruits[index] === 'Banana') {
fruits.splice(index, 1);
}
}
console.log(fruits);
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.forEach() goes in a forward direction (ex. 0...5) so if an element is removed then the length decreases as the length decreases to half to of the length, the index reference will be greater than the length -- hence half of the array remains.
When decreasing the length of an array, go in the revearse direcrtion (ex. 5...0). The example below uses a reverse for loop and .splice(i, 1).
const fruits = ["Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana", "Banana"];
for (let i = fruits.length; i >= 0; i--) {
if (fruits[i] === "Banana") {
fruits.splice(i, 1);
}
}
console.log(fruits);