string help

[Anon]

Hi,

From the sentance
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

I want to search for "fox" and then get a little bit before and a little bit after so something like

"ick brown fox jumped ov" is returned.

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks

G WiZZ

[Anon]

Well,

$str="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

$margin=5;
$str=substr($str,strpos($str, "fox")-$margin,$margin*2+3);
echo "$str";

This is not a perfect script, and you'll have to do error checking to make sure that 2nd argument in substring will not be less then 0.

Return value should be "rown fox jump", 5 characters from the left and five from the right.

Di