wordwrap() not working with variable combined string

Volitics

Hello.

I'm trying to get the wordwrap() function to work. It's not working properly.

What I'm trying to do is combine five text strings into one variable string and then apply the wordwrap() function to the combined string.

What it's doing is the wordwrap() function does not start working until it gets to the last variable in the combined string.

$One = "City";
$Two = "State";
$Three = "Date";
//four equals the string " /text/ "
$Five = "We are constantly looking for new ways to recognize these young men for their contributions to our program. This is one way we acknowledge all they have done, and continue to do, for the program";


$String = wordwrap($One.", ".$Two." ".$Three." /text/ -- ".$Five, 68);

//The $String above outputs this on the page:
City, State Date  /text/ We are constantly looking
for new ways to // it cuts off here
recognize these young men for their contributions to our program.
This is one way we acknowledge all they have done, and continue
to do, for the program
//The wordwrap starts working at the "We are ..."  and then ends the wordwrap at the "to".
// The "We are constantly looking for new ways to" equals the first 68 (or whatever) characters.
// It starts wrapping after the "to" It should include more on the 2nd line.

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Can anybody spot the problem?

Thanks.

bjwilke

output of $String under PHP 5.0.3 is as expected:

City, State Date /text/ -- We are constantly looking for new ways to
recognize these young men for their contributions to our program.
This is one way we acknowledge all they have done, and continue to
do, for the program

Which version of PHP are you using?

Volitics

My web hosting has the version 4.3.11

There's something that I forgot. I'm using the <pre></pre> tags in order to preserve the carriage returns that was put into the text when it was entered into the db.

If I remove the <pre> tags it works ok but the carriage returns are not preserved.

Is there some way that I can combine the strings so they'll work with the <pre> tags?

maxpup979

would nl2br work for you in preserving the carriage returns?

Volitics

It might. I'm tinkering with it now. What it does though is insert a <br /> where there is an newline. If I remove the <pre> tgs and use the nl2br it inserts the <br /> where the newline is and puts me back to where I started.

Volitics

This looks like it might work.

// Strip out all of the newlines.
$FirstPart = str_replace("\n", " ", $FirstPart);
// This lets the wordwrap() work.

// Then replace the carriage returns with a new paragraph
$FirstPart = str_replace("\r \r ", "<p>", $FirstPart);

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