Re: Splitting a line of text
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:26:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Splitting a line of text | ||
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pour@mieterra.com (Andreas Pour) writes:
> Franklin van Velthuizen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all. Is there any way that I can insert a new line (<br>\n) into a
> > string
> > > every 45 characters?
> >
> > take a look at
> > http://uk.php.net/manual/html/function.wordwrap.html
> >
> > $text = wordwrap($text, 45, "<br>\n") should do the trick, I guess
>
> Hi,
>
> I think wordwrap moves back to the first white space before the xth
> character. To put one exactly every 45 characters, you need something
> like:
>
> $text = ereg_replace("(.{45})", "\\1\n", $orig);
This would be considerably faster...
$text = chunk_split($text, 45, "<br>\n");
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