How do I cut a string and add suspension marks?

Question

I wan to cut a string in around 300 characters and add "..." at the end if it was above that number of characters. I know it can't be very hard but I don't want to cut a word in half so I wanted to know how do I do it so it doesn't end up like: "And the bird suddenl..."

Thanks

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4446034 — Jonah, Jan 23 '11 at 17:17
possible duplicate of [Truncate a multibyte String to n chars](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2154220/truncate-a-multibyte-string-to-n-chars) — Gordon, Jan 23 '11 at 17:20
more: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=truncate+string+word+boundary+php — Gordon, Jan 23 '11 at 17:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '11 at 17:16

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function limit($str, $limit, $append = '...') {
    return preg_replace('/\S*$/', '', mb_substr($str, 0, $limit)) . $append;
}

answered Jan 23 '11 at 17:16

Vojta

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '11 at 17:17

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http://php.net/wordwrap

$str = 'A very long string here';
$str = wordwrap($str, 100);
$str = explode("\n", $str);
$str = $str[0] . '...';

answered Jan 23 '11 at 17:17

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Nope. Try with `"is simply dummy \ntext of the printing and"` – Gordon Jan 23 '11 at 17:23
We can use `$str = str_replace("\n",'',$str);` at the beginning... Is it ?? – Naveed Jan 23 '11 at 17:33
What if the OP wants to stay newlines intact? You dont know if the resulting string is printed in a browser where newlines are not shown anyway. It could be printed in a shell environment and there it would be meaningful. – Gordon Jan 23 '11 at 17:37
OP may want many other things also. OP is allowed to play with this solution. – Naveed Jan 23 '11 at 17:42

How do I cut a string and add suspension marks?

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