Re: 'Intelligently' truncate string?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:37:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 'Intelligently' truncate string? | ||
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On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:35, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm working on a page where I'm attempting to display article titles in a
> relatively narrow area. To save from ugly wrap-arounds in the links, I've
> decided to truncate the article title string at 20 chars. This works well
> except where the truncate occasionally falls in the middle of a HTML entity
> reference (eg or © etc).
after you do your usual truncation just add the following:
$truncated = ereg_replace( '&[[:alpha:]]*$', '', $truncated );
You may need to replace alpha with alnum since I can't remember if there
are any entities with digits :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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