Regexp to force line break/word wrap in long words

[Ciaran]

Hi Can someone please give me a hand adapting this expression? I need
it to add a space into all words longer than 14 characters that are
not contained within [square brackets]

$result = preg_replace("/([^\s]{14})/","$1 ",$result);

It currently adds a space into all words that are longer than 14
characters but this is breaking another function I'm using which
extracts urls and other info from inside square brackets.

Thanks a lot!
Ciarán

[Paul Lautman]

Ciaran wrote:

Hi Can someone please give me a hand adapting this expression? I need
it to add a space into all words longer than 14 characters that are
not contained within [square brackets]

$result = preg_replace("/([^\s]{14})/","$1 ",$result);

It currently adds a space into all words that are longer than 14
characters but this is breaking another function I'm using which
extracts urls and other info from inside square brackets.

Thanks a lot!
Ciarán

I need more information to answer this, but no point in asking for it as I'm
sure in your expert view I have all Ineed!

[Jerry Stuckle]

Paul Lautman wrote:

>
I need more information to answer this, but no point in asking for it as I'm
sure in your expert view I have all Ineed!

;-)

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[Ciaran]

On Dec 3, 10:12 pm, "Paul Lautman" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

I need more information to answer this, but no point in asking for it as I'm
sure in your expert view I have all Ineed!

Really?? What other information would you like? or were you just
trying to be condescending?

[Ciaran]

On Dec 5, 2:48 am, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>

No, just truthful. After several requests from different users, you
told us in comp.databases.mysql you didn't see why we would need any
more information to solve your problem.

Jerry, Please be assured that I meant no offence to you or anyone else
over on the mysql newsgroup. You personally have been of great help to
me in the past and I am very thankful and respectful for that. I've
looked again at all the replies on the mysql topic and if you look
again you will see that I was nothing but polite and responsive until
I was asked to explain the table design repeatedly. I was looking for
a quick solution to a simple problem. The reason I did not give more
info initially was because I didn't want to start a long discussion on
the way my tables were laid out - I simply wanted help with the syntax
of the query. From experience posting to these newsgroups, I know that
giving too much superfluous info can lead to very delayed solutions as
eager purists discuss the most efficient way to do things. I usually
only post here to find handy solutions to problems I cannot fix and
occasionally to help beginners in similar situations. I was impatient
- I apologise and I do appreciate your time.
Ciarán

[Jerry Stuckle]

Ciaran wrote:

On Dec 5, 2:48 am, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>>>No, just truthful. After several requests from different users, you
told us in comp.databases.mysql you didn't see why we would need any
more information to solve your problem.

Jerry, Please be assured that I meant no offence to you or anyone else
over on the mysql newsgroup. You personally have been of great help to
me in the past and I am very thankful and respectful for that. I've
looked again at all the replies on the mysql topic and if you look
again you will see that I was nothing but polite and responsive until
I was asked to explain the table design repeatedly. I was looking for
a quick solution to a simple problem. The reason I did not give more
info initially was because I didn't want to start a long discussion on
the way my tables were laid out - I simply wanted help with the syntax
of the query. From experience posting to these newsgroups, I know that
giving too much superfluous info can lead to very delayed solutions as
eager purists discuss the most efficient way to do things. I usually
only post here to find handy solutions to problems I cannot fix and
occasionally to help beginners in similar situations. I was impatient
- I apologise and I do appreciate your time.
Ciarán

The problem was, the question you were asking required the tables design
to provide a good answer. And that's why you were asked for it
repeatedly, by multiple people.

Giving too much information is seldom bad. Not enough is *always* bad.
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