Question

How can i get rid of trailing spaces in preg_split result without using preg_replace to first remove all spaces from $test string?

$test   = 'One , Two,   Thee   ';
$test   = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $test);
$pieces = preg_split("/[,]/", $test);

Answer 1

If it must be preg_split() (you actually required that in the question) then this might help:

$test   = 'One , Two,   Thee   ';
$pieces = preg_split("/\s*,\s*/", trim($test), -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

trim() is used to remove space before the first and behind the last element. (which preg_split() doesn’t do – it removes only spaces around the commas)