breaking up strings

[Ian Davies]

Hello
I have a string of varying length, lets call it $mystring.
I wish to break it up and put it in the following form

echo"<span
class='myclass'>".1st_30chars_$mystring_to_nearest _word."<br>".2nd_30chars_$
mystring_to_nearest_word."<br>".....etc....last_lo t_of_chars_of_$mystring."<
/span>";

does anyone know how to do this
Ian

[Krustov]

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<Ian Davies>
<Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:42:48 GMT>
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I have a string of varying length, lets call it $mystring.
I wish to break it up and put it in the following form

echo"<span
class='myclass'>".1st_30chars_$mystring_to_nearest _word."<br>".2nd_30chars_$
mystring_to_nearest_word."<br>".....etc....last_lo t_of_chars_of_$mystring."<
/span>";

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php
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[Craig Taylor]

Ian Davies wrote:

Hello
I have a string of varying length, lets call it $mystring.
I wish to break it up and put it in the following form

echo"<span
class='myclass'>".1st_30chars_$mystring_to_nearest _word."<br>".2nd_30chars_$
mystring_to_nearest_word."<br>".....etc....last_lo t_of_chars_of_$mystring."<
/span>";

does anyone know how to do this
Ian

Someone else has already posted referencing the wordwrap function; if
you wish to do it yourself - ie: more customization than wordwrap can
give you - use the following psuedo-code that takes advantage of strtok
(note: I haven't validated this hence it's psuedo-code not 'true' code
):

$x = 'sentance of some length';
$y = strtok( $x, ' ' );
$curpos = 0;
while( !( $y == null ) )
{
echo $y;
if( strlen($y) + $curpos 30 )
{
echo '<br>';
$curline = 0;
}
$y = strtok( $x );
}

- Craig Taylor
http://www.ctalkobt.net

[Ian Davies]

Thanks all thats exactly what I was looking for.
wordwrap was adequate for my needs
Ian

"Ian Davies" <ia********@virgin.netwrote in message
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Hello
I have a string of varying length, lets call it $mystring.
I wish to break it up and put it in the following form

echo"<span

class='myclass'>".1st_30chars_$mystring_to_nearest _word."<br>".2nd_30chars_$

>

mystring_to_nearest_word."<br>".....etc....last_lo t_of_chars_of_$mystring."<

/span>";

does anyone know how to do this
Ian