note 80996 deleted from function.substr by danbrown
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| Subject: | note 80996 deleted from function.substr by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: ben at enemy dot dk
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Needed a method to cut text without cutting in middle of words, so made this little function to
iterate back until a whitespace is found, and then cut the text from there.
function cutText($string, $length) {
while ($string{$length} != " ") {
$length--;
}
return substr($string, 0, $length);
}