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[Dell Sala]

Are you reassigning the result to $text? The first argument is not  
passed by reference -- instead, it returns the trimmed string.

$text = rtrim($text, ', ');
echo $text;

BTW: if this string is build by a loop, there is another idiom that I  
find cleaner than stripping off the last separator: Build text as an  
array, then implode it.

$text = array();
foreach (range(0, 2) as $i) {
    $text[] = 'blah';
}
$text = implode(', ', $text);


-- Dell


On Oct 31, 2006, at 8:33 PM, David Krings wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a string that looks like this
> $text = 'blah, blah, blah, ';
> I want to use rtrim to cut off the last comma and the whitespace.  
> So I use
> rtrim($text, ', ');
>
> To my surprise, it doesn't cut anything off. When I echo $text the  
> comma
> and the space are still there.
>
> Is rtrim broken or my logic or my script?
>
> David K.
>
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