triming a string

Question

This may be dumb but I've been beating my head against it for a bit now..

$values contains this text:

'58','val','val','val','2011-05-12 21-41-42','','0','micahstesttest',

Why won't this trim the last comma?

trim($values, ",");

EDIT - this is how $values is being generated:

$values = "";
foreach($users_table as $k=>$v){ $values .= "'$v',"; }
trim($values, ",");

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '11 at 01:54

2

Is it possible that there's extra whitespace after the end of your string? Trying printing it surrounded with quotes.

answered May 13 '11 at 01:54

Brendan Long

mcgrailm · Answer 2 · 2011-05-13T15:22:24.993

0

this works for me

<?php
$str = "'58','val','val','val','2011-05-12 21-41-42','','0','micahstesttest',";
echo( trim($str, ","));

?>

you could also do this

echo( trim(trim($str, " "),","));

or

echo(trim($str, ", "));

if you just want to put the values of an array in to a new array just use array_values()

$values = array_values($users_table);
echo($values);

edited May 13 '11 at 15:22

answered May 13 '11 at 02:01

mcgrailm

It doesn't seem possible for this string to have any trailing whitespace (see my edit to the original post). But I tried this to be on the safe side and didn't have any luck. – doub1ejack May 13 '11 at 13:55
@sing1ejack I edited my answer let me know if that does what you need – mcgrailm May 13 '11 at 15:58

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '11 at 02:09

You probably have some extra character after last comma ,. See this code:

$str = "'58','val','val','val','2011-05-12 21-41-42','','0','micahstesttest', ";
var_dump(trim($str, " "));

string(69) "'58','val','val','val','2011-05-12 21-41-42','','0','micahstesttest',"

Try checking your original string with var_dump like this:

var_dump($str);

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '11 at 15:09

0

I caved.

$values = preg_replace("/,$/", "", $values);

If anyone knows what I was doing wrong, I'd love to hear it though. It's got me stumped.

answered May 13 '11 at 15:09

doub1ejack

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