09-19-2000
Depending on what exactly you're trying to do, there could be a couple ways to do it. Say you have a variable...
$VAR
...and you want to pull the 4th through the 6th character out of it. You can echo it to the screen...
echo $VAR | cut -c4-6
...or you can assign it to a variable...
CHARACTER4=`echo $VAR | cut -c4-6`
...if you don't know how many characters long the word is, you can leave the end number off the cut command...
echo $VAR | cut -c4-
...and it will echo the variable, minus the first three characters. Get it? Email me if you need more help, at ::email removed:: .
Last edited by oombera; 02-13-2004 at 01:36 PM..
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wordwrap - Wraps a string to a given number of characters
SYNOPSIS
string wordwrap (string $str, [int $width = 75], [string $break = "0], [bool $cut = false])
DESCRIPTION
Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character.
PARAMETERS
o $str
- The input string.
o $width
- The number of characters at which the string will be wrapped.
o $break
- The line is broken using the optional $break parameter.
o $cut
- If the $cut is set to TRUE, the string is always wrapped at or before the specified $width. So if you have a word that is larger
than the given width, it is broken apart. (See second example). When FALSE the function does not split the word even if the $width
is smaller than the word width.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the given string wrapped at the specified length.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
wordwrap(3) example
<?php
$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />
");
echo $newtext;
?>
The above example will output:
The quick brown fox<br />
jumped over the lazy<br />
dog.
Example #2
wordwrap(3) example
<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "
", true);
echo "$newtext
";
?>
The above example will output:
A very
long
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ooooord.
Example #3
wordwrap(3) example
<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooooooooord. and something";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "
", false);
echo "$newtext
";
?>
The above example will output:
A very
long
woooooooooooooooooord.
and
something
SEE ALSO
nl2br(3), chunk_split(3).
PHP Documentation Group WORDWRAP(3)