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[Anon]

Hey Ya'll,

How do I change this :

$dis = "Var1 Var2 Var3";

to this :

"Var1 Va........"

I want a large variable, to schrink into a shorter variable with dots at the end like this :

" Shorten this sentence " ---> " Shorten thi....... "

possible?

mail me!
Niels

[andreas]

if(strlen($var) > 10)
$var = substr($var, 0, 8)."...";

That should work

Andreas

[Anon]

Short example:

$text = "this is a nasty test of a string cutter";

function shortenstring($text) {
if (strlen($text) < 15) return $text;
return substr($text, 0, 14) . "...";
}

print shortenstring($text);

would display the 15 first chars of $text and append three dots. (theoretically).
If you actually want as many dots as the string is (it could look that way from your post), then you could use this method:

$dots = "";
for ($x = 0; $x < strlen($text)-15; $x++)
$dots .= ".";

Note that 15 is just a number of chars I chose =)

[kparker]

Note that 15 is just a number of chars I chose =)

So make it a parameter and be done with it!