# How to remowe empty rows in Array{String,1}?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 17, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125 "2018-02-17T09:30:11Z")
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#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125/1 "2018-02-17T09:30:11Z")

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How to remowe empty rows in Array{String,1} ?

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#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125/2 "2018-02-17T09:34:51Z")

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How did you create the array? You can test for an empty string when you create it. Or just make a new array without the empty strings in.

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#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125/3 "2018-02-17T09:55:42Z")

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```julia
[s for s in yourarray if !isempty(s)]

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#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-remowe-empty-rows-in-array-string-1/9125/4 "2018-02-17T13:46:58Z")

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```julia
obj = ["", "a", "", "b", ""]
filter(!isempty, obj) # standard way
filter!(!isempty, obj) # in-place variant

```