Re: Truncate words in multiple paragraphs

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Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> I am using the following function (that I found in the user comments on
> php.net manual) for trimming the number of words accepted via a form field
> 
> // Truncation is by word limit, not character limit. So if you limit
> // to 255, then it will cut off a text item to 255 words, not 255
> characters
> function trim_text ($string, $truncation=250) {
>     $string = preg_split("/\s+/",$string,($truncation+1));
>     unset($string[(sizeof($string)-1)]);
>     return implode(' ',$string);
> }


How about
$string = nl2br($string);
$string = trim_text($string);
$string = str_replace("<br />","\n",$string);
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