Re: Trimming Text

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:03 +0100, Richard Davey wrote: > Hello André, > > Friday, July 15, 2005, 4:24:23 PM, you wrote: > > AM> I am trying to trim some text containing HTML tags. What I want to > AM> do is to trim the text without trimming the tags or html entities > AM> like &nbsp; and such, wich completelly break the design. > > The problem as I see it, is that while it's easy to trim some text and > then check to see if you were inside an HTML tag or not, it becomes > MUCH harder to check if you were inside nested tags (for example > <strong><em>) > > If there are no nested tags then it's much easier.. just trim the > string at X characters and then search for the last occurrence of a > '>' and the last occurance of '<' - if the first is LESS than the > second > value, then you're in the middle of a tag. > > This of course doesn't handle nested tags. > > Best regards, > > Richard Davey > -- > http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services > "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov > Yeah... that's the point :( Nested tags are very possible. I am not sure how one would go here tho