If more than 10 char replace with ....?

[Mr.x]

Hello Everyone,

Just wondering if anyone knows a way so that say I have a script that prints out a result from a database and its result is more then 10 char, to stop on char 10 and add ... ie.

applecherrybanana <- Normal
applecherry... <- After

Thanks alot,

Sean

[Crimpage]

[code]function nicetrim ($s, $l) {
// limit the length of the given string to $MAX_LENGTH char
// If it is more, it keeps the first $MAX_LENGTH-3 characters
// and adds "..."
// It counts HTML char such as &aacute; as 1 char.
//

  $MAX_LENGTH = $l;
  $str_to_count = html_entity_decode($s);
  if (strlen($str_to_count) <= $MAX_LENGTH) {
  return $s;
  }

  $s2 = substr($str_to_count, 0, $MAX_LENGTH - 3);
  $s2 .= "...";
  return htmlentities($s2);
}[/code]

[Mr.x]

Thank you very much :)