RegExr Help

[Danny620]

I have user submitted data like:  repairs,national, companies, larger,cheaper, large, trade,  windscreen  ,

 

as you can see its not consistent in some cases it has a space after the comma and then it has more spaces, what I'm asking for is a preg_replace expression that would tidy the data to end up like this:

 

repairs, national, companies, larger, cheaper, large, trade, windscreen

 

so 1 space after the comma, and no comma on end of string

 

thanks

[ManiacDan]

$theString = trim(preg_replace("/\s*,\s*/", ", ", $theString), ',');

[Danny620]

im using this to remove the comma on end of string however its not working

echo $theString = 'repairs,national, companies, larger,cheaper, large, trade,   windscreen  ,'."<br />";

echo $theString = trim(preg_replace("/\s*,\s*/", ", ", $theString))."<br />";

echo $theString = rtrim( $theString, ',' ); ?>

[ManiacDan]

You put a <br> at the end of the string.  Don't do that.

[Danny620]

it still does not remove the last comma from the end of the string

[Danny620]

sorted just changed

trim(preg_replace("/\s*,\s*/", ", ", $theString), ',spacehere needed');

[ManiacDan]

Then you were adding a space at the end of the string too.  I can only work with what I was given.  Your string ended in a comma, not a space or a <br>

[Danny620]

Yes sorry about that thanks for the help