note 59170 deleted from function.str-word-count by bobby

Note Submitter: webmaster at joshstmarie dot com ---- I re-examined the methods I used in my last script, as well as the other methods shown on the comments in this page. I've revised my code a great deal since then. This new version, will limit paragraphs to a certain amount of words. It's the fastest possible way I can see of doing it... so here it is: // Truncation is by word limit, not character limit. So if you limit // to 255, then it will cut off a text item to 255 words, not 255 characters function trim_text ($string, $truncation=250) { $string = preg_split("/\s+/",$string,($truncation+1)); unset($string[(sizeof($string)-1)]); return implode(' ',$string); } By avoiding array_slice, it is much faster. Correcting for multiple spaces still slows it down on large text items, but it's still blazing quick in the end.