Posted by techusky on 09/19/07 19:25

I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

All I have been able to do is truncate the $articleBody string using a
function similar to this:

function word_split($str,$words=200)
{
$arr = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $str,$words+1);
$arr = array_slice($arr,0,$words);
return join(' ',$arr);
}

However, this will only produce the first of three strings.

Any ideas?

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