[RESOLVED] How to split a string cleanly into at most 2 strings

[hadoob024]

I almost have this working but am missing something. I have a string that I need to split into at most 2 smaller strings. It has to be split cleanly (not in the middle of text), and the first string cannot be longer than 25 characters. So for example, the following:

$mystring = "This Is My Manufacturer Name That Can Be Long"

Should be stored into 2 smaller strings like:

$mystring1 = "This Is My Manufacturer"
$mystring2 = "Name That Can Be Long"

I was going to use wordwrap() but that won't work because I need the values to be stored in 2 separate string variables. Is using explode() the way to go?

Btw, this is what I have. Is this the best way to do it?

                    

$mfg_name_length = strlen($manu->name);
if ($mfg_name_length >= 25) {
     $mfg_name_array = explode(" ", $manu->name);
     $space_loc = strrpos(substr($manu->name, 0, 25), " ");
     $pdf->addText(45,675,14,"Manufacturer:    ".substr($manu->name, 0, $space_loc));
     $pdf->addText(45,660,14,"Manufacturer:    ".substr($manu->name, $space_loc+1, $mfg_name_length));

[laserlight]

hadoob024 wrote:

I was going to use wordwrap() but that won't work because I need the values to be stored in 2 separate string variables. Is using explode() the way to go?

Come to think of it, you could use both wordwrap() and explode(), e.g., use wordwrap() with a delimiter not found in the string, and then use explode() on the result with the same delimiter. Then after using array_shift() to get the first string, implode() the rest of the array to get the second string. But this may be a rather slow method.

[hadoob024]

Cool. I'll give that a shot too and see if there are any performance issues between the two. Thanks man!