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lfatr on 02/16/10


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TRIM A STRING WITHOUT CUTTING ANY WORDS

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URL: http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/06/27/php-trim-a-string-without-cutting-any-words/

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  1. function neat_trim($str, $n, $delim='…') {
  2.    $len = strlen($str);
  3.    if ($len > $n) {
  4.        preg_match('/(.{' . $n . '}.*?)\b/', $str, $matches);
  5.        return rtrim($matches[1]) . $delim;
  6.    }
  7.    else {
  8.        return $str;
  9.    }
  10. }

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