couldn't you just do substr( $blah, 0, 55)
or something similar?
(i'm crap with syntax, so that's just off my head...)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: [PHP] substr() on part an ereg() capture
> Hi, I have this ereg to turn URLs into links:
>
> eregi_replace("([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", "<a
> href=\"\\1://\\2\\3\" {$t}\">\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $str);
>
> ... found it in the manual i think, or maybe on weberdev.com examples
>
>
> Anyhoo, it places the whole link in between the <a...> and </a>, which is
> fine for short links, but on longer links (in my case, around 60+ chars),
it
> messes with my table or CSS layout.
>
> So, I'd like to subtr() the 2nd capture part down to 55 chars or something
> IF it's longer than 60, and append a ... to it.
>
> ANY ideas on how this is done? Or is this beyond regexp??
>
>
> TIA
>
> Justin
>
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