note 50162 added to function.substr

Hi there here is a little function i wrote to limit the number of lines in a string, i could not find anything else like it out there function lineLimiter ($string = "", $max_lines = 1) { $string = ereg_replace("\n", "##", $string); $totalLines = (substr_count($string, '##') + 1); $string = strrev($string); $stringLength = strlen($string); while ($totalLines > $max_lines) { $pos = 0; $pos = strpos ( $string, "##") + 2; //$pos = $pos - $stringLength; $string = substr($string, $pos); $totalLines--; } $string = strrev($string); $string = ereg_replace("##", "\n", $string); return $string; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50162 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50162&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50162&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50162&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50162&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50162&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50162&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php