Re: 'Intelligently' truncate string?

You could also try a combination of html_entity_decode to change all entities back, then truncate it, then use html_entities to get back to the encoded string. Hope this helps Cherrs Chris Robert Cummings wrote:

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.