You might want to consider wordwrap(), which will count out to the length you specify. If the next character is not a blank, it will back up to the first available blank and insert the break character you choose at that point (inplace of the blank), "<br>" is a valid option, and it will continue doing this until the line is broken up into as many lines as it takes that are never longer than the number specified. If you want to divide it in half divide strlen() by two. Wordwrap would work like you specify, if you use 15 as the max length, except that it would not leave the blank at the end of the line (can't imagine why you'd want that). Also since you goal is to limit the size of a line, not sure why you'd want have it add to the length looking for the blank, suppose the word at character position 10 (in your case) was "supercallifragilisticexprealidoceous", do you really want your line to be 46 characters long because a long word was placed at the break point? Hth, Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Piggott [mailto:ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:11 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: Breaking a line in two > > > Is there a way to add > > <br> > > midway through a string, following the first available space? > > Example: > > The cat jumped up high. > > This is 23 characters long. I want <br> added after the 12th > character, following the first space: > > The cat jumped <br>up high. > > would be the desired output. > > Ron > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
