note 59170 added to function.str-word-count

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. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59170 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59170&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59170&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php