Long text split into columns.

lunde

I have a long text, and i have split the text into columns. 1000 letters in each col.

$limit = 1000;
$totlen = strlen($text);
$iter = (float)($totlen/$limit);
$num = 1;
while ($num < $iter) {
$start = ($num-1) * $limit;
if ($iter == $num-1) {
$length = $totlen % $limit;
} else {
$length = $limit;
}
$page[$num] = substr($text,$start,$length);
$num++;
}

Now I have the problem that some words are split and that the following columns starts with half words.

1)How can I work my way aroud this?

2)Is it possible to count also the blank spaces after a(\n) so I can tell exactly how high the column is?

Newbie

lunde

OK! I found out a way to do this.. Since there might be anybody else browsing the archive looking for the same, I'll post the code. Keep in mind that I'm a newbie and don't have much experience. There probably is a lot faster and better ways to do this.

function split_text($text, $page){

$len = 160; //number of words
if ($page == 1){
	$start = 0;	
	$end = ($page * $len) - 1;
 } elseif ($page > 1){
 	$end = ($page * $len) - 1;
	$start = ($end - $len) + 1;
 }
		 		 $words = Array();

preg_match_all('/([^ ]) /', $text, $words);
for($n = $start;
$n <= $end;
$n++){

      $newsbite .= $words[0][$n] . ' ';
  $next_chap = strlen($newsbite);
  if ($next_chap == $len){
      $newsbite = "";
  }				 
  }
  return $newsbite;

}

If the $newsbite returns nothing, go to next chapter.