Return all array elements except for a given key

Question

Simple one, I was just wondering if there is a clean and eloquent way of returning all values from an associative array that do not match a given key(s)?

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Answer 1

You could just unset the value:

$alphaAndGamma = $array;
unset($alphaAndGamma['alpha']);

Edit: Made it clearer. You can copy an array by assigning it to another variable.

or in a function:

function arrayExclude($array, Array $excludeKeys){
    foreach($excludeKeys as $key){
        unset($array[$key]);
    }
    return $array;
}