[RESOLVED] preg_replace a title

[Shawazi]

Hello I am trying to make it so if someone writes a paragraph like

I am writing a long sentence like this or something.

It will break it into

I am writing a long sentence like this or
something

I have code like this to grab the title:

$title = preg_replace('/(.?[^\B]{1,40}).*/', "$1", $title);
//code to get remainder of text removed since it works fine

The number does not correlate with the sentence but the problem I am having is that sometimes it will still cut the words like

I am writing a long sentence like this or somet
hing

But not always and I'm not sure why.

[NogDog]

Take a look at the [man]wordwrap[/man] function.

[Shawazi]

It works now. But I am assuming now that there is a better way to get the rest

$text_wrap = wordwrap($orig_text, 40, "\n");
$title = preg_replace('/(?:[\r\n]).*/', '', $text_wrap); //isolate first line

$blurb = $orig_text;
$safe_title = $title;
$replacement = '\\\$1';
$safe_title = preg_replace('/([\^\$\<\>\|\\\\{\[\]\}\.\*\+\?\/\(\)])/', $replacement, $safe_title); //escape all necessary characters for replace to not error out
$pattern = '/^'.$safe_title.'/';
$blurb = preg_replace($pattern, '', $blurb); //get rid of first line from text

[Weedpacket]

"The rest"...

list($title, $blurb) = explode("\n", $text_wrap, 2);

Or if you don't want the wrapping in $blurb...

list($title) = explode("\n", $text_wrap, 2);
$blurb = trim(substr($orig_text, 0, strlen($title)));

Since you're removing the first line from $blurb, it seems possible to me that you're doing this so that you can display both of them together, but with the first line styled differently. If that's the case, then have a look at CSS's :first-line pseudo-element.

[Shawazi]

will that work in IE6? my IE6 laptop isn't here right now ha

[Shawazi]

according to browsershots.org it does and thats amazing