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PHP: Truncate text to x chars
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function truncate($string,$words) {
$truncated = preg_replace('/((\w+\W*){' . $words . '}(\w+))(.*)/', '${1}', $string);
if ( strlen($string) > strlen($truncated) ) {
$truncated .= '...';
}
return $truncated;
}
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