Question

I have a string stored in a variable, this string may appear in the next ways:

$sec_ugs_exp = ''; //Empty one
$sec_ugs_exp = '190'; //Containing the number I want to delete (190)
$sec_ugs_exp = '16'; //Containing only a number, not the one Im looking for
$sec_ugs_exp = '12,159,190'; // Containing my number at the end (or in beginning too)
$sec_ugs_exp = '15,190,145,86'; // Containing my number somewhere in the middle

I need to delete the 190 number if it exists and deleting also the comma attached after it unless my number is at the end or it is alone(there is no commas in that case)

So in the examples I wrote before, I need to get a return like this:

$sec_ugs_exp = '';
$sec_ugs_exp = '';
$sec_ugs_exp = '16';
$sec_ugs_exp = '12,159';
$sec_ugs_exp = '15,145,86';

Hope I explained myself, sorry about my English. I tried using preg_replace and some other ways, but I always failed in detecting the comma.

Answer 1

My final attempt not using regex:

$codes = array_flip(explode(",", $sec_ugs_exp));
unset($codes[190]);
$sec_ugs_exp = implode(',', array_keys($codes));