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This may seem a bit thick, but how do I reference this function; say($chars = array()) I have never come accross that before.

Sorry about that, I was just editing it afetr trying something else, and just pasted it in, without checking what i'd done. Anyway thanks for the help. I will try that function, but I can't see it working.

function justify($text, $width, $break) { $marker = "__$%@random#$()__"; // lines is an array of lines containing the word-wrapped text $wrapped = wordwrap($text, $width, $marker); $lines = explode($marker, $wrapped); $result = ""; foreach ($lines as $line_index=>$line) { $line = trim($line); $words = explode(" ", $line); $words = array_map("trim", $words); $wordcount = count($words); //$wordlength = strlen(implode("/([^\s]{6})/","$1 ",$words) $wordlength = strlen(implode("", $words)); // if (3*$wordlength < 2*$width) { // don't touch lines shorter than 2/3 * width // continue; // } $spaces = $width - $wordlength; $index = 0; do { $words[$index] = $words[$index] . " "; $index = ($index + 1) % ($wordcount - 1); $spaces--; } while ($spaces>0); $lines[$line_index] = implode("", $words); } return implode($break, $lines); }

I've been stuck on a problem to limit text in a css cell. I would like it to be 29 characters wide and 3 lines high only (this last bit is the problem). I have tried many of the examples on the php.net site, and none do the trick. I have also tried modifying them. I wondered whether it is possible to acheive this?

I know what you mean, and it is a lot easier to just extract from one list as mentioned by toonmariner. But I have a special need for this particular function and I actually do have it working (after a fashion because its random in its operation, not displaying the numbers as it should) using a lot of if else commands. If you can supply me with any poiters that would be great. thanks

$a is defined from a function; [ The other array is gathered from this;

Thanks, sorry for not being specific enough. The number I refer to is the amount of elements that are associated to a given field as extracted from the mysql db [quote]       $count=$OneCount['name'];       $num=$OneCount['num']; $arr2[]="$count"; $arr3[]="$num";[/quote] I havn't really shown it in this script as I could not get it to work, but I am presuming that making the number "$arr3" loop, then it should work.

Thanks Jenk, Here is where I am up to. [code=php:0] $f = htmlspecialchars($f); $arr1[]= "$f";     } }     { if (!empty($a))           while(list(,$OneCount)=each($a))           {       $count=$OneCount['name'];       $num=$OneCount['num']; $arr2[]="$count"; $arr3[]="$num";     } {             $result = array_merge($arr1, $arr2);   $f = array_unique($result);   while (list($indexValue, $fi) = each ($f)) foreach($fi as $key => $val) {     echo "<option $sel value=\"".htmlentities($val)."\">".htmlentities($key).'. '.htmlentities($val).""; }[/code] Could you point me in the direction of getting the number into the array? Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply, but I have read a lot about arrays, and have tried various things. [quote]          $result = array_merge($arr1, $arr2);   $f = array_unique($result);   while (list($indexValue, $fi) = each ($f))   echo"<option $sel value=\"".$fi."\">".$fi."";[/quote] This stops the duplication of elemnts, but I need to put the number next to the appropriate listing.

Hi, I wonder if anyone could help me with this; I have two arrays, Array 1 is a list from A to Z, Array 2 is list of elements that contain data for a specific letter with a number indicating the amount of. So if 'C' for instance has two amounts of data and 'E' has one, then the list will show;             A             B             C (2)             D             E (1)             etc. I cannot get this to work correctly, please someone help.