How to Delete The Last Element from an Associative Array in PHP?

How to Delete The Last Element from an Associative Array in PHP?

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Here is how to delete the last element from an associative array in PHP.

PHP supports a predefined function array_shift(), which helps us to delete the first element from an associative array.

Syntax of array_shift() function is given below:

array_shift(arrayvariable name);

The below is an example for deleting the first element from an associative array $a.

<html>
<body>
<?php
$a=array("person1"=>"amit","person2"=>"tarak","person3"=>"monali","person4"=>"raja");
array_shift($a);
print_r($a);
?>
</body>
</html>

Output:Array ( [person2] => tarak [person3] => monali [person4] => raja )

The associative array $a is containg 4 elements. The first element is deleted using the function array_shift(). After deleting the first element, the associative array $a is containing 3 elements and the function print_r is using to print the associative array $a.

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