shortening a string

Hi

I have a string:

$string="aslkjdaslkdiwedweodij"

When printing it out, I want it to be limited to 10 characters followed
by "..."

Result:

"asjdksledo..."

I only want this to happen when the string is longer than 10
characters.

How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
exp.. :/

Thanks!

asdfkajsdflkjsadlfkjoewqifoeiwjf@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have a string:
>
> $string="aslkjdaslkdiwedweodij"
>
> When printing it out, I want it to be limited to 10 characters
> followed by "..."
>
> Result:
>
> "asjdksledo..."
>
> I only want this to happen when the string is longer than 10
> characters.
>
> How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
> exp.. :/

How about something like:

if(strlen($string) > 10) {
print substr($string, 0, 10) . '...';
}
else {
print $string;
}

It could also be done on one line like so:

strlen($string) > 10 ? print substr($string, 0, 10) . '...' : print
$string;

--
Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/

asdfkajsdflkjsadlfkjoewqifoeiwjf@yahoo.com wrote:

> How can this be done in php? I know how to do it in Perl through reg
> exp.. :/

You can use reg expressions in PHP as well :)
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

This uses Perl style expression matching

HTH

Ron Chaplin

Thanks guys! Works brilliantly