RE: [PHP] Shortening a String

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for and is working perfectly. - Jason -----Original Message----- From: Pablo Gosse [mailto:gossep@unbc.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:18 PM To: Jason Williard; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Shortening a String On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:53 PM Jason Williard wrote: > I would like to display part of the output of a query. In many cases, > the string returned by this query exceeds 200 characters. Is there a > way to cut it off after 200 characters? Even better, is there a way to > cut it off at the next space after 200 characters? This should do what you want. substr($str,0,strpos($str,' ',200)); Cheers, Pablo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php