Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/22/07 11:50

chris.huh wrote:

> So with ereg* you specify what things it should search for in a
> variable and then it removes them leaving just what is left in another
> variable. Then i apply the 'select first 100 characters; function to
> that. Is that right?

Seemed it was even easier than using ereg*

$stringnotags=substr(strip_tags($stringwithhtml),0,100);


http://www.php.net/strip_tags
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

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//Aho

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