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How to keep empty values in filtered array? #57

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@Finesse

What

I've found that Filter removes an empty value from the input array after you apply any filter on it:

$filter = new Filter();
$filter->all()->trim();
$result = $filter->filter([
    'one' => ' 1 ',
    'zero' => ' 0 ',
    'space' => ' ',
    'null' => null,
    'false' => false
]);
var_dump($result);
/*
[
    'one' => '1'
]
*/

In this case I don't want to remove empty values (especially the ' 0 ' value), I just want to trim them. If I wanted to remove empty values I would call:

$filter
    ->all()
    ->trim()
    ->callback(function ($value) { return $value === '' ? null : $value; })
    ->removeNull();

What is expected

All the array keys are preserved:

$filter = new Filter();
$filter->all()->trim();
$result = $filter->filter([
    'one' => ' 1 ',
    'zero' => ' 0 ',
    'space' => ' ',
    'null' => null,
    'false' => false
]);
var_dump($result);
/*
[
    'one' => '1',
    'zero' => '0',
    'space' => '',
    'null' => '', // or null
    'false' => ''
]
*/

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