How to remove the last comma in a string?

[irock]

Hi, I got a feed in which one of the 'childs' look like this
A product, B product, C product, D product, E product,

I was wondering how to remove the last comma.

Thanks!

[Birdman]

You could use substr() [php.net] to strip the last character off the string.

$str = "A product, B product, C product, D product, E product,";
$str = substr($str, 0, strlen($str)-1);

[Moonface]

or use eregi_replace

$string=eregi_replace(',$', '', $string);

the $ means from the end of the string, so..

replace the comma from the end of string with an empty space

[ergophobe]

Birdman's solution is better than a regex solution, since the regex engine takes more time and processing. Usually best to avoid if another built-in function does it.

However, Birdman's solution is unnecessarily complicated. You don't need to know the string length. Just do this

$str = substr($str, 0, -1);

That will cut the last char off a string. From the manual:

If length is given and is negative, then that many characters will be omitted from the end of string

Tom