On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ex: > > "This is the string and it is this long" > > This is > the string > and it > is this > long > > I found some long functions to achieve this but I couldn't help but > think that it could be done in a couple lines. > > Possible? > > Thanks. > I'm not sure it's the best method, but it didn't take long to come up with this: <?php $string = "This is the string and it is this long"; if (preg_match_all('/(?:(?:\w+\s+){2}|(?:\w+$))/', $string, $matches)) { var_dump($matches[0]); } ?> Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php