How to truncate a string in PHP to the sentence closest to a certain number of characters?

Question

I want to truncate/shorten my string to the sentence closest to a ceratain number of characters.

I have a working function, but my function truncate to the word clos

Answer 1

You could just use a simple regular expression like /^([^.]*?).*/ and replace that with "$1". Like:

$output = preg_replace('/^([^.]+).*/', '$1.', $input);

That said, you'll have to be aware that not all languages have period (.) as the sentence delimiter.

HTH.