Re: Truncate words in multiple paragraphs

[Verdon Vaillancourt <vern@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3-Feb-06, at 12:25 PM, John Meyer wrote:

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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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That's clever :)

Thanks,
verdon

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