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

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 3, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-method-do-you-use-to-display-comma-seperated-lists-correctly/580604 "2011-05-03T19:10:29Z")
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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-method-do-you-use-to-display-comma-seperated-lists-correctly/580604/2 "2011-05-03T19:14:03Z")

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> [@Programmers - What method do you use to display comma seperated lists correctly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-what-method-do-you-use-to-display-comma-seperated-lists-correctly/580603/2):
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> I’d just use the built-in join function in Perl:
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> $str = join “,”, @list;

So that joins the values together with a comma? Is there a PHP equivalent? (I’ll google)

edit: Looks like there is one. I’ll use this in future 🙂

> **[PHP: join - Manual](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.join.php)**
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> Alias of implode

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