jQuery Data Type How to - Remove empty strings from array while keeping record of indexes with non empty strings

Question

We would like to know how to remove empty strings from array while keeping record of indexes with non empty strings.

Answer


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
<!--from   w w  w. j a  v  a 2  s .c  o  m-->
var myArray = ["I", "am", "", "still", "here", "", "man"] ;
var myNewArray = [] ;
var myOldPosition = [] ;
for(var i=0, max = myArray.length ; i < max ; i++){
    myArray[i] == '' ? true : myNewArray.push(myArray[i]) 
    myArray[i] == '' ? true : myOldPosition.push(i)    
}
document.writeln(myNewArray) ;
document.writeln(myOldPosition);

</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

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