AAAAAH why does array_filter in php not readjust indexes after removing elements holy fuck what the fuck is wrong with this language

there's array_splice() for just this occasion.

And reindexing the array takes time... just dropping the index does not. So you can save some cycles if you don't care about the array's indexes.

Also note unset() will not reindex.

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