How to Truncate a string in PHP to the word closest to a certain number of characters?

Question

I have a code snippet written in PHP that pulls a block of text from a database and sends it out to a widget on a webpage. The original block of text can be a lengthy artic

Answer 1

This is a small fix for mattmac's answer:

preg_replace('/\s+?(\S+)?$/', '', substr($string . ' ', 0, 201));

The only difference is to add a space at the end of $string. This ensures the last word isn't cut off as per ReX357's comment.

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