From b5172ff53a637d01872b7d90899ee64472ee2e92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Vanwaelscappel <vincent@cubedesigners.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:50:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] wip #7904 @1

---
 src/ArrayUtil.php | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ArrayUtil.php b/src/ArrayUtil.php
index 51db0ed..8a311cc 100644
--- a/src/ArrayUtil.php
+++ b/src/ArrayUtil.php
@@ -165,16 +165,42 @@ class ArrayUtil
     public static function merge()
     {
         $args = func_get_args();
-        $res = array();
+        $res = [];
         foreach ($args as $arg) {
             if (!is_array($arg)) {
-                $arg = array($arg);
+                $arg = [$arg];
             }
             $res = array_merge($res, $arg);
         }
         return $res;
     }
 
+    public static function mergeOverwriteNull()
+    {
+        $args = func_get_args();
+        foreach ($args as $k => $arg) {
+            self::cleanNullValues($arg);
+            $args[$k] = $arg;
+        }
+        return call_user_func_array('self::merge', $args);
+    }
+
+    public static function cleanNullValues(&$arr)
+    {
+        foreach ($arr as $k => $v) {
+            if (is_array($v)) {
+                self::cleanNullValues($v);
+                if (!count($v)) {
+                    unset($arr[$k]);
+                } else {
+                    $arr[$k] = $v;
+                }
+            } else if (null === $v) {
+                unset($arr[$k]);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * @param $str
      * @return int[]
-- 
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