RE: [PHP] selecting words

Jamie, There was a post earlier very similar to this. If you have a database, you could use SELECT LEFT(mycolumn, 100) FROM mytable WHERE ... Without a db, you can use the PHP substring function: substr() Hope this helps, Johan Alfredeen www.pongworld.com -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Saunders [mailto:othermail@jamie-s.co.ukREMOVETOEMAIL] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:53 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] selecting words Hi, What I'd like to do is take a string (paragraph) of text consisting of say 500 words and display only the first 100 words. Is there a function able to do this? Thanks. Jamie -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net