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Truncates a string to the nearest defined word boundary.
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truncate-string-to-word.php
<?php
// Truncates a string to 275 characters to the nearest word
// from: preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr($string, 0, 201));
$the_substring = preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr( $the_string , 0, 275));
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