[SOLVED] Trimming with strlen question..

[acer0169]

I'm sure this is an easy thing to do, but I can't seem to get it working..

 

I've been using this..

 

substr($row['title'], 0, 55)

 

..to cut my strings down to 55 characters, but this often cuts a word in half. I would like to know how I can cut off a string after the last whole word which fits within a 55 character limit.

 

Thanks in advance,

Ace.

 

(first post also, hi everyone!!)

[GingerRobot]

Unless there's already a function for this, probably the easiest way would be to use the wordwrap function to get lines of the desired lenth, then explode the string and use the first index of the resulting array.

 

Alternatively, you could explode the string by the space, and loop through the array checking the length of each part. If adding the word doesn't take you over the limit, append it to the generated string. If it does, don't add it and break out the loop.

[acer0169]

Thanks GingerRobot!

 

I think the wordwrap and explode method would be easiest for me. I knew there was some way to do this.

Thanks again!