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Posted by James Benson on 10/29/05 22:41
Did you actually test that?
Even better version of your function,
<code>
$string = "one two three four";
echo substr($string, -4);
echo '...';
</code>
James
Danny wrote:
> Finally i found it (Google is god, you only have to ask the right question)
> function trim_text($text, $count){
> $text = str_replace(" ", " ", $text);
> $string = explode(" ", $text);
> for ( $wordCounter = 0; $wordCounter <= $count;wordCounter++ ){
> $trimed .= $string[$wordCounter];
> if ( $wordCounter < $count ){ $trimed .= " "; }
> else { $trimed .= "..."; }
> }
> $trimed = trim($trimed);
> return $trimed;
> }
>
> Usage
> ------------------------------------------------
> $string = "one two three four";
> echo trim_text($string, 3);
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Danny <metalito@gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 29, 2005 1:36 PM
> Subject: Substr by words
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
>
> Hi,
> I need to extract 50 words more or less from a description field. How can i
> do that?. Substr, cuts the words. Is there any other way to that, without
> using and array? I mean and implemented function in PHP 4.x
> I´ve been googling around, but wordwrap, and substr is driving me mad...
> Thanks in advance
> Best Regards
>
> --
> dpc
>
>
> --
> dpc
>
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