Clean up a string

[planetphp]

Hi,

I have a news page which selects the first 75 charecters of text from the main news text.

What i want to do is clean it up.

Sometimes the text prints out half words, so I want to strip everything after the last space in the text so that the last word is a full one.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[BuzzLY]

I have many ideas. Most are not fit for a public forum...

[Installer]

Use strrpos()

$msg = 'Sometimes the text prints out half words, so I want to strip everything after the last space in the text so that the last word is a full one.';
$seventyfive = substr($msg, 0, 75);
$pos = strrpos($seventyfive, ' ');
$short_msg = substr($seventyfive, 0, $pos);
echo $short_msg;

[BuzzLY]

I'd use preg_replace, but that's just personal preference. Simply search for the pattern "whitespace, word, end of string," and replace it with ellipses:

$msg = preg_replace("§\s\w$§i";"...";$msg);