Re: Substr by words
| From: | Gustavo Narea | Date: | Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:07:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Substr by words | ||
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Hello.
What do you think about this:
<?php
$MyOriginalString = "This is my original string.\nWhat do you think about this script?";
$MaxWords = 6; // How many words are needed?
echo substr( $MyOriginalString, 0, -strlen(ereg_replace ("^([[:space:]]*[^[:space:][:cntrl:]]+){1,$MaxWords}", "",$MyOriginalString)));
?>
Only 3 lines.
You have to change $MaxWords to 50 if that's what you need.
Best regards,
Gustavo Narea.
Danny wrote:
Hi, I need to extract 50 words more or less from a description field. How can i do that?. Substr, cuts the words. Is there any other way to that, without using and array? I mean and implemented function in PHP 4.x I´ve been googling around, but wordwrap, and substr is driving me mad... Thanks in advance Best Regards -- dpc