Re: splitting text after 25 words

Hi, Best way i guess would be traverse the whole string and check for space. Have a counter var which keeps count of the space. At the 25th occurence do something like this - $text_a = substr($text, 1, $i); i assume that $i is the increment var in the loop. $text_b = substr($text, $i+1); This should give u the strings in 2 vars. Now u can add anything with $text_a."...Click here ".$text_b Hope i was helpful, Karthik. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: [PHP] splitting text after 25 words > Hi all, > > I'd like to split a text block at 25 words, as a teaser for the full > article. Now I know how to split at a certain character, but i don't > want a half word or anything, so I want (i guess) to hunt for the 25th > occurence of " " (a space), and split $text into two new variables, > $text_a and $text_b. > > Then I'll prolly want append something like "... click here to read > more" on the end of $text_a. > > Seems easy enough, but I can't see anything in the manual about > splitting on a numbered occurence of a string (but I could be looking > in the wrong spot :) > > Running PHP4 BTW > > > > Thanks heaps in advance > Justin French > > -- > 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 > >