a better way to do this?

[aebstract]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a better/shorter/cleaner way to do the following:

 

$article = substr($article, 0, 1000);
$dotpos = strrpos($article, '.');
$article = substr($article, 0, $dotpos) . '..';

 

Basically shortens the string down to 1000 characters, then finds the last period in the string, shortens it down again to that period and then adds .. on the end. I bet there is a way to do it in 1 line?

[Wolphie]

I can't really see a shorter way except concatenating it into a single string.

[aebstract]

I figured there would be a way to use a regular expression to start from the 1000th character, go backwards until you run in to a period and then cut it to that point and add 2 more periods. Maybe?