Re: Splitting long text

I have been using the below function successfully. Hope it works for you. -- Anas // textwrap 1.1 Brian Moon <brian@phorum.org> // This code is part of the Phorum project <http://phorum.org>

// $String     The string to be wrapped.

// $breaksAt How many characters each line should be. // $breakStr What character should be used to cause a break.

// $padStr     Allows for the wrapped lines to be padded at the begining.

function textwrap ($String, $breaksAt = 78, $breakStr = "\n", $padStr="") { $newString=""; $lines=explode($breakStr, $String); $cnt=count($lines); for($x=0;$x<$cnt;$x++){

       if(strlen($lines[$x])>$breaksAt){
           $str=$lines[$x];
           while(strlen($str)>$breaksAt){
               $pos=strrpos(chop(substr($str, 0, $breaksAt)), " ");
               if ($pos == false) {
                   break;
               }
               $newString.=$padStr.substr($str, 0, $pos).$breakStr;
               $str=trim(substr($str, $pos));
           }
           $newString.=$padStr.$str.$breakStr;
       }
       else{
           $newString.=$padStr.$lines[$x].$breakStr;
       }

} return $newString; } // end textwrap() On 1/23/07, Skip Evans <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote:

Hey all, I have a requirement to take a large amount of text, a story submitted to a competition, and split into displayable chunks of 600 words each. I'd like some feedback on the best way to this. Thanks! Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 61 W Broadway Butte, Montana 59701 406-782-2240 http://bigskypenguin.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Check out PHPenguin, a lightweight and versatile PHP/MySQL development framework. http://phpenguin.bigskypenguin.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

-- Anas Mughal