Re: selecting words
| From: | bill | Date: | Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:43:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: selecting words | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-general+get-61824@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
function TrimString($sString,$iLen=125){
$retstring=strtok($sString," ")." ";
do {
if(!$tmp=strtok(" ")." ") break;
$retstring.=$tmp;
} while(strlen($retstring)<$iLen);
if(strlen($retstring)<strlen(trim($sString))) $retstring .="...";
return $retstring;
} // end function
Jamie Saunders wrote:
> 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