RE: [PHP] substr() on part an ereg() capture

Looks like this one : http://examples.weberdev.com/get_example.php3?count=1567 so if someone manages to get this done, i would appreciate it if he can add a comment. thanks berber -----Original Message----- From: Justin French [mailto:justin@indent.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:24 PM To: php Subject: [PHP] substr() on part an ereg() capture Hi, I have this ereg to turn URLs into links: eregi_replace("([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", "<a href=\"\\1://\\2\\3\" {$t}\">\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $str); ... found it in the manual i think, or maybe on weberdev.com examples Anyhoo, it places the whole link in between the <a...> and </a>, which is fine for short links, but on longer links (in my case, around 60+ chars), it messes with my table or CSS layout. So, I'd like to subtr() the 2nd capture part down to 55 chars or something IF it's longer than 60, and append a ... to it. ANY ideas on how this is done? Or is this beyond regexp?? TIA Justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php