shortening a string

[asdfkajsdflkjsadlfkjoewqifoeiwjf@yahoo.com]

Hi

I have a string:

$string="aslkjd aslkdiwedweodij "

When printing it out, I want it to be limited to 10 characters followed
by "..."

Result:

"asjdksledo ..."

I only want this to happen when the string is longer than 10
characters.

How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
exp.. :/

Thanks!

[Chris Hope]

Re: shortening a string

asdfkajsdflkjsa dlfkjoewqifoeiw jf@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I have a string:
>
> $string="aslkjd aslkdiwedweodij "
>
> When printing it out, I want it to be limited to 10 characters
> followed by "..."
>
> Result:
>
> "asjdksledo ..."
>
> I only want this to happen when the string is longer than 10
> characters.
>
> How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
> exp.. :/[/color]

How about something like:

if(strlen($stri ng) > 10) {
print substr($string, 0, 10) . '...';
}
else {
print $string;
}

It could also be done on one line like so:

strlen($string) > 10 ? print substr($string, 0, 10) . '...' : print
$string;

--
Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/

[Ronald Chaplin]

Re: shortening a string

asdfkajsdflkjsa dlfkjoewqifoeiw jf@yahoo.com wrote:
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> How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
> exp.. :/[/color]

You can use reg expressions in PHP as well :)

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

This uses Perl style expression matching

HTH

Ron Chaplin

[asdfkajsdflkjsadlfkjoewqifoeiwjf@yahoo.com]

Re: shortening a string

Thanks guys! Works brilliantly