[Resolved] [Resolved] inserting a BREAK after X amount of characters

[LordRogaine]

I have a site where the members fill out a description of themselves. I want to set it up so that I insert a break after 50 characters in case some wise guy decides to put in nothing but a row of 50 or more of the same character. This ruins the layout of the table I have. My problem is, how do I prevent the break from occuring in the middle of an actual word in a good sentence? Is it possible to have a minimum/maximum amount of characters? This is what I am using.

$description = eregi_replace("(.{50})", "\1\n<br>",$description);

[hokietoner]

in that regex you're using, doesn't . stand for any character, so spaces would be included?

One very crude way you could do it is to just do something like:
while(pull off first word of string)
check length of word
possibly put a <br> inside the word
add word to new string
end while

Or, could you just fix the width of the table column?

[LordRogaine]

Can't change the width of the table column. Clueless as to how I would make the other changes.

[Weedpacket]

[man]wordwrap[/man]?

[LordRogaine]

ahhhh! Thank you.

[bradgrafelman]

/me points to 'RESOLVED' link