Are there any best practices for dealing with NULL values in arrays when using built-in PHP functions like min()?

When using built-in PHP functions like min() on arrays that contain NULL values, the function may not behave as expected and may return NULL instead of the minimum value. To handle this issue, you can filter out the NULL values from the array before using the min() function. This can be done using array_filter() with a custom callback function that removes NULL values. 

// Example array with NULL values
$array = [10, 20, NULL, 30, 40];

// Remove NULL values from the array
$array = array_filter($array, function($value) {
    return $value !== NULL;
});

// Get the minimum value from the filtered array
$minValue = min($array);

echo $minValue; // Output: 10

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