Displaying 10 words from .dat flatfile

[mccdave]

Can anybody help me

 

I am trying to figure out how to display, for example the first 10 words of a .dat flatfile

 

I am using the following which displays the text fine

<?php
$lines = file('DATfiles/text.dat');
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line)
{
print $line . "<br />\n";
}
?>

 

Any ideas?

 

Many thanks

[kanikilu]

<?php
$lines = file('DATfiles/text.dat');
$firstLine = explode(' ', $lines[0]);
$first10words = array_slice($firstLine, 0, 10);
$string = implode(' ', $first10words);
echo $string;
?>

This works, but there may be (probably is) a better way to do this...I'm just picking up PHP after a couple years, so I'm a little rusty. Wasn't sure if you needed to account for punctuation or not, but that can handled pretty easily with something like str_replace().