At 21:32 11.03.2003, David Soler said:
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>user writes: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
>
>in the web must appear something like:
>
> table width
> |--------|
> aaaaaa
> aaaaaa
> aaaaaa
> aaaaaa
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You can use a regular expression for this task. This is what I use for my
CMS routines:
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function make_maxlen($string, $maxlen)
{
$re = '/(.*?)([^\s]{' . $maxlen . ',})(.*)/';
$out = null;
while (preg_match($re, $string, $aresult)) {
$out .= $aresult[1]; // pre-match
$out .= substr($aresult[2], 0, $maxlen) . "\n"; // first n
characters of matching long-word
$string = substr($aresult[2], $maxlen) . $aresult[3]; // stuff back
reminder
}
$out .= $string;
return $out;
}
$test = 'abc defghijklmno pqrstuvwxyz' .
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' .
'abc defghijklmno pqrstuvwxyz' .
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' .
'abc defghijklmno pqrstuvwxyz' .
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
echo $test, '<hr>', nl2br(make_maxlen($test, 25));
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Note that the make_maxlen function returns strings split up merely with a
newline character, so use nl2br to create a forced newline. There's no
drawback in not using nl2br (not adding '<br />'s) since the inserted
newline character will be visible as whitespace and allow the user agent to
properly reformat the text within the area.
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