Re: Truncating

From: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:44:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Truncating
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Sorry about the many e-mails, but I found this example that trucates a string in a Perl script: $TruncatedWord =~ s/(\S{50})/$1 /isg; is their any chance I can convert this to PHP using preg_replace? If so, how? Andrew digi-FX ------------------------------- http://www.digi-FX.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew <fisherres@msn.com> To: PHP General <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:12 PM Subject: [PHP] Truncating > Hello, > > I have a string that I'd like to truncate to a specified amount of > characters long. This string will then be printed to the browser. How can > I truncate the string, and then convert all whitespaces to &nbsp;? > > Thanks! > > Andrew > digi-FX > ------------------------------- > http://www.digi-FX.net > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >

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