Re: Re: Substr by words

On 30 Oct 2005, at 06:22, Gustavo Narea wrote:

$replacement = ereg_replace ("^([[:space:]]*[^[:space:][:cntrl:]]+){1,$MaxWords}", "",$MyOriginalString); echo substr( $MyOriginalString, 0, ($replacement) ? -strlen($replacement) : strlen($MyOriginalString));

You could get the regex to do the search and the extraction in one go: $MyOriginalString = "This is my original string.\nWhat do you think about this script?"; $MaxWords = 6; // How many words are needed? $matches = array(); if (preg_match("/(\b\w+\b\W*){1,$MaxWords}/", $MyOriginalString, $matches)) {

    $result = trim($matches[0]);
    echo $result;

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