restrict string length to nearest word
OK so I have been looking and asking around the interest for months now because I cant figure out how to restrict a length of a string to the nearest word?
Bsically, I do this: str.substr(0,20) which may result in: "This is a wor..." when it should be "This is a word...."
How can I do this?
I tried using lastIndexOf() with no luck.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 02:49 — 18th February 2010.
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Hi,
Is this what you're looking for?
[code]
function doIt(str)
{
var x = 0
do {
x = str.lastIndexOf(" ");
alert(x);
if (x > 20)
str = str.substr(0,x);
} while (x > 20)
alert(str.substr(0,x))
}
[/code]
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benf posted this at 15:42 — 22nd February 2010.
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Hi Mate,
This doesnt work?
Something similar to wordwrap in PHP?
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 16:39 — 22nd February 2010.
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You could break it up into an array.
<?php$words = explode(' ', $text);
?>
The work with it accordingly, and implode() it when done. I'm not sure how well that will scale, but it should work.
benf posted this at 17:08 — 22nd February 2010.
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Hi Mate,
I need this in Javascript?
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 21:46 — 22nd February 2010.
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Woops, my bad.
aion4217 posted this at 08:46 — 23rd February 2010.
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Something similar to wordwrap in PHP?
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benf posted this at 12:18 — 23rd February 2010.
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OK I finally cracked by finding "charAt()".
Here it is:
var s = 'This is a string and it is more than 10 chars long';var max = 29;
if(s.charAt(max) != ' '){
var t = 1;
while(s.charAt((max + t)) != ' '){
t++
}
document.write(s.substr(0,(max + t)));
document.write('<br />'+s)
}
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