How to remove an array from occurrence found within a sub array!

Question

Well, I have the following situation, I would need to check if the term exists (name of the fruits) if to delete the array that is matching the values (name of the fruit and code)

Example: When searching for the term pineapple do this

[0] => Array
    (
        [0] => maça
        [1] => 1256
    )

[1] => Array
    (
        [0] => abacaxi
        [1] => 1234
    )

[2] => Array
    (
        [0] => pera
        [1] => 235
    )

turn this around

   [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => maça
            [1] => 1256
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => pera
            [1] => 235
        )

I couldn’t make it work with multidimensional array! Thank you all.

Answer 1

Supposing $frutas is the target array of the query followed by exclusion:

$frutas = [
  ['maça', 1256],
  ['abacaxi', 1234],
  ['pera', 235],
  ['banana', 1235],
  ['laranja', 2135],
  ['limão', 2315],
  ['morango', 2351]
];

One possibility is to filter the array with array_filter() and check each item with in_array() to know if one of its values is the cut string.

$frutas = array_filter($frutas, function ($item){
  return !in_array('abacaxi', $item);
});

Another possibility is to iterate with foreach for each element of the array and destroy with unset() the element has the cut string:

foreach($frutas as $key => &$value){
  if (in_array('pera', $value)) unset($frutas[$key]);
}

Test both examples in Repl.it: https://repl.it/repls/WhitesmokePunctualDebugmonitor