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Text wrapper with regexp

Type:	code fragment
Added by:	fabricet
Entered:	24/07/2000
Last modified:	01/12/2001
Rating:	(3 votes)
Views:	5494

wrap_text is a basic function to wrap a given text argument to a certain number of characters. To be customized.

<?php
function wrap_text($text, $wrap) {

                            
 $wrap -= 2; //wrapped phrase is started and ended by a char

                            
 preg_match_all("/bw.{1,$wrap}wb/",$text,$parts);

                            

                            return (implode("<br>", $parts[0])); 

                            }
?>

Usage Example

$phrase = "This is a very long string only with spaces, alphanumerics,  it takes over 72 characters on a single line,  it should be wrapped"; 


                            

                            print $phrase . "<br>";

                            

                            print (wrap_text($phrase, 14));

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