On Thursday 25 January 2001 21:06, H. Wade Minter wrote:
> Does anyone have a good idea on how to split after a certain number of
> words?
Attached is code that semi-intelligently limits strings to a certain
number of characters. Perhaps that helps you.
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<?php
function LimitString ($TheString, $MaxChars, $Threshold = 5)
{
if (strlen ($TheString) <= $MaxChars)
return $TheString;
// (1) hard upper limit is $MaxChars
$Work = substr ($TheString, 0, $MaxChars);
// (2) try to find a word boundary at the end to make it look nicer
$Pos = strrpos ($Work, ' ');
if ($Pos >= ($MaxChars - $Threshold))
$Work = substr ($Work, 0, $Pos);
$Work .= ' ...';
return $Work;
}
?>
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