Removing undefined values from Array

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To use Array.prototype.filter here might be obvious. So to remove only undefined values we could call

var data = [42, 21, undefined, 50, 40, undefined, 9];

data = data.filter(function( element ) {
   return element !== undefined;
});

If we want to filter out all the falsy values (such as 0 or null) we can use return !!element; instead.

But we can do it slighty more elegant, by just passing the Boolean constructor function, respectively the Number constructor function to .filter:

data = data.filter( Number );

That would do the job in this instance, to generally remove any falsy value, we would call

data = data.filter( Boolean );

Since the Boolean() constructor returns true on truthy values and false on any falsy value, this is a very neat option.

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