[Resolved] Print 1st Line of text, wordwrap?

[tomandhannah]

Let's say I have the following code:

<?
$example = 'This is a text consisting of words. Words should not be split, nor should we get any linebreaks';

print wordwrap($example, 50, '...');

?>

This will display:
This is a text consisting of words. Words should...not be split, nor should we get any linebreaks

But I want to only display the first 50 characters or so. Only 'one lines' worth of words. How can I do this? Is wordwrap not the way to go?

I want to display:
This is a text consisting of words. Words should...

any ideas?

[TTT]

 <? 
$example = 'This is a text consisting of words. Words should not be split, nor should we get any linebreaks'; 

$example = str_replace("<br>","",$example );
$example = str_replace("\n","",$example );

if(strlen($example) > 50) {
   $example = substr($example,0,50);
   if(substr($example,-1) != " ") {
      $lastSpace = strrchr($example," ");
      $example = substr($example,0,$lastSpace);
   }
  $example = $example."...";
}

echo $example;
?> 

[tomandhannah]

That code doesn't work on either of my servers: PHP3 and PHP4

All I get is the elipses:

...

[jebster]

In his example replace strrchr with strrpos 😉

[tomandhannah]

Works perfectly! Thanks a ton...