Re: Newbie Question: breaking a substr() string on a space

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> Hi, everyone,
>
> I'm 'teasers' of the first, say 200 to 250 characters of some articles.
> This works great:
>
>      $content = strip_tags($article['content']);
>      $striptease = substr($content, 0, 275);
>
> but cuts off words right in the midd ...
>
> I'd like to find a way to take $content, look at the first 250
> characters, then count backwards to the last space and chop it there.
>
> Does anyone have an ideas/scripts for this?

$pos = strpos($content, ' ');
$pos = $pos ? $pos : strlen($content);
$teaser = substr($content, 0, $pos);

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