note 34929 added to ref.strings

Based on szeryf at negativeIQ dot pl's post on 02-Apr-2003 05:41, regarding truncating strings to the nearest whitespace.. I've come up with a slightly modified version. The original version would stop at a newline and hence not output the specified number of characters. function truncate ($var, $len = 120) { if (empty ($var)) { return ""; } if (strlen ($var) < $len) { return $var; } if (preg_match ("/(.{1,$len})\s./ms", $var, $match)) { return $match [1] . "..."; } else { return substr ($var, 0, $len) . "..."; } } The only difference is with the regular expression, from: "/(.{1,$len})\s/" to: "/(.{1,$len})\s./ms" Hopefully this is helpful for someone other than myself. :-) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+34929 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+34929&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+34929&report=yes