Splitting a string into three parts

[techusky]

I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

All I have been able to do is truncate the $articleBody string using a
function similar to this:

function word_split($str ,$words=200)
{
$arr = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $str,$words+1);
$arr = array_slice($ar r,0,$words);
return join(' ',$arr);
}

However, this will only produce the first of three strings.

Any ideas?

[Krustov]

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<Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:25:47 -0000>
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I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

$newtext=wordwr ap($slap,200,"\ n",1);
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(c) The Amazing Krustov

[techusky]

On Sep 19, 3:44 pm, Krustov <m...@privacy.n etwrote:

<comp.lang.ph p>
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<Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:25:47 -0000>
<1190229947.157 523.58...@22g20 00hsm.googlegro ups.com>

I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

$newtext=wordwr ap($slap,200,"\ n",1);

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(c) The Amazing Krustov

I'm sorry, but that does not do what I described. I need to take one
string and turn it into three separate strings. Thank you for your
quick reply, though.

[gosha bine]

On 19.09.2007 21:25 te******@gmail. com wrote:

I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

All I have been able to do is truncate the $articleBody string using a
function similar to this:

function word_split($str ,$words=200)
{
$arr = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $str,$words+1);
$arr = array_slice($ar r,0,$words);
return join(' ',$arr);
}

However, this will only produce the first of three strings.

Any ideas?

hi

given a text $text and an integer $num_cols, you can do something like this

<?

# split the text into words
$w = preg_split('/\s+/', $text);

# create $num_cols arrays of words
$w = array_chunk($w, ceil(count($w) / $num_cols));

# convert arrays of words back to strings
foreach($w as $k =$v) $w[$k] = implode(' ', $v);

# $w contains $num_cols strings
?>

hope this helps.
--
gosha bine

makrell ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok/makrell
php done right ;) http://code.google.com/p/pihipi

[techusky]

On Sep 20, 5:46 am, gosha bine <stereof...@gma il.comwrote:

On 19.09.2007 21:25 techu...@gmail. com wrote:

I am making a website for a newspaper, and I am having difficulty
figuring out how to take a string (the body of an article) and break
it up into three new strings so that I can display them in the
traditional newspaper column format.

For instance, say the string $articleBody contains a 600 word article.
What I want to do is break $articleBody up into three new strings in a
format such as this:

$string1 contains words 0-200 from $articleBody
$string2 contains words 201-400 from $articleBody
$string3 contains words 401-600 from $articleBody

All I have been able to do is truncate the $articleBody string using a
function similar to this:

function word_split($str ,$words=200)
{
$arr = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $str,$words+1);
$arr = array_slice($ar r,0,$words);
return join(' ',$arr);
}

However, this will only produce the first of three strings.

Any ideas?

hi

given a text $text and an integer $num_cols, you can do something like this

<?

# split the text into words
$w = preg_split('/\s+/', $text);

# create $num_cols arrays of words
$w = array_chunk($w, ceil(count($w) / $num_cols));

# convert arrays of words back to strings
foreach($w as $k =$v) $w[$k] = implode(' ', $v);

# $w contains $num_cols strings

?>

hope this helps.

--
gosha bine

makrell ~http://www.tagarga.com/blok/makrell
php done right ;)http://code.google.com/p/pihipi

That did the exact trick! ...and it's a very simple solution, too.
Thanks a million, you're a lifesaver gosha bine.