Hi there,
I have written a script that automatically chops off anything over 100 characters and I have the following line in there to make sure it does so at the last full word:
$truncated = substr($longstring,0,strpos($longstring,' ',100));
This ensures that I’m not chopping in the middle of a word - It counts back to the last space before the 100th character.
I want to change this so that it counts back to the last full stop before the 100th character so that I can enhance the script even more and truncate at the end of a sentence rather than the end of a word.
I have tried replacing
$truncated = substr($longstring,0,strpos($longstring,' ',100));
with
$truncated = substr($longstring,0,strpos($longstring,'.',100));
but it doesn’t work…
How can I tell it to count back to the last full stop instead of the last space?