Avoiding commas in formula if no value exists

Challis

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Hi guys,
I have this formula which matches two criteria and returns upto 4 values all in the same cell.
It works well and as i intended but one thing I'd like to address is only putting commas in if a trailing value is returned.
So my question is, if no value is returned, is there a way to not show the trailing comma.
So say for example if one value was returned "A" it would just show "A". If two values were returned "A" & "B"" it would show "A,B".

Code:
=IFERROR(INDEX(Schedule!C:C,SMALL(IF((Schedule!$P$6:$P$1000=Dashboard!$A3)*(Schedule!$S$6:$S$1000={"Inspecting","Authoring Report"}),ROW(Schedule!$C$6:$C$1000)),ROWS(C$2:C$2))),"")&", "&IFERROR(INDEX(Schedule!C:C,SMALL(IF((Schedule!$P$6:$P$1000=Dashboard!$A3)*(Schedule!$S$6:$S$1000={"Inspecting","Authoring Report"}),ROW(Schedule!$C$6:$C$1000)),ROWS(C$2:C$3))),"")&", "&IFERROR(INDEX(Schedule!C:C,SMALL(IF((Schedule!$P$6:$P$1000=Dashboard!$A3)*(Schedule!$S$6:$S$1000={"Inspecting","Authoring Report"}),ROW(Schedule!$C$6:$C$1000)),ROWS(C$2:C$4))),"")&", "&IFERROR(INDEX(Schedule!C:C,SMALL(IF((Schedule!$P$6:$P$1000=Dashboard!$A3)*(Schedule!$S$6:$S$1000={"Inspecting","Authoring Report"}),ROW(Schedule!$C$6:$C$1000)),ROWS(C$2:C$5))),"")

Thanks
 

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Hi,

Can you show various sample results from the formula that contain the unwanted , commas?
 
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Maybe...(untested)
Use a space as separator rather than ", " and try
=SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(formula here)," ",", ")

Hope this helps

M.
 
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The above formula doesn't work properly with the values returned by the INDEX functions contain spaces.
Maybe something like this
=SUBSTITUTE(IFERROR(", "&INDEX(.....),"")&IFERROR(", "&INDEX(.....),"")&IFERROR(", "&INDEX(.....),"")&IFERROR(", "&INDEX(.....),""),", ","",1)

M.
 
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