PHP: Remove the first and last item of the array

Question

Suppose I have this array:

 $array = array(\'10\', \'20\', \'30.30\', \'40\', \'50\');

Questions:

What is the fastest/

Answer 1

Using array_slice is simplest

$newarray = array_slice($array, 1, -1);

If the input array has less than 3 elements in it, the output array will be empty.