# Programmers - What method do you use to display comma seperated lists correctly?

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**Created:** [May 3, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-method-do-you-use-to-display-comma-seperated-lists-correctly/580603 "2011-05-03T19:06:53Z")
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#### Post date: [May 3, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-method-do-you-use-to-display-comma-seperated-lists-correctly/580603/2 "2011-05-03T19:09:50Z")

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I’d just use the built-in join function in Perl:

$str = join “,”, @list;

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