How to search array according to alphabetically.

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$Object = 'Cucumber';

in the cucumber place if i put "C" it should list all the elements from the salad list which are starting from "C". Is their any way to do this?

What I have tried:

<pre>$veggies = array("Potato", "Cucumber", "Carrot", "Orange", "Green Beans", "Onion");
            $fruits  = array("Apple", "Banana", "Orange", "Pineapple", "Grapes", "Watermelon");
            $salad   = array_merge ($veggies, $fruits);
            $Object = 'Cucumber';
            $search = array_keys($salad, $Object);
            print_r($salad) ; 
            print_r($search);
            foreach($search as $value)
                {
                echo $Object;
            }

Posted 4-Apr-18 2:59am

1234Amit

Updated 4-Apr-18 5:35am

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Christiaan van Bergen · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-04T05:37:00

To match only the beginning of the string in your $salad array, apply the array_filter method.

PHP

$search = array_filter($salad, function($el) use ($Object) {
            return ( strpos($el[0], $Object) !== FALSE );
          });

Here we loop through all elements in the @salad and put them to the test wether or not the first part equals the $Object string.

So your code would be

PHP

$veggies = array("Potato", "Cucumber", "Carrot", "Orange", "Green Beans", "Onion");
$fruits  = array("Apple", "Banana", "Orange", "Pineapple", "Grapes", "Watermelon");
$salad   = array_merge ($veggies, $fruits);
$Object = 'C';

$search = array_filter($salad, function($el) use ($Object) {
        return ( strpos($el[0], $Object) !== FALSE );
    });

print_r($search);

With a result of

Array
(
    [1] => Cucumber
    [2] => Carrot
)