Question

I’m having a string which is comma seperated like this

$str = "john, alice, mary,joy";

Some are having space after comma and some don’t. What I want to do is remove all the commas and make them like this:

$str = "john alic mary joy";

What is the best way to do this in php?

Answer 1

str_replace is the simplest solution when there is at most one space after the comma:

$str = str_replace(array(', ', ','), ' ', $str);

If there can be multiple spaces, then I would go with the regex solution. (see icktoofay’s answer)