separate string in two by given position

Question

$string = \'Some string\';
$pos = 5;

...??...

$begging // == \'Some s\';
$end // == \'tring\';

What is the best way to separate string in two by

Answer 1

Regex solution (if you are into it):

...
$string = 'Some string xxx xxx';
$pos = 5;

list($beg, $end) = preg_split('/(?<=.{'.$pos.'})/', $string, 2);

echo "$beg - $end";

Regards

rbo

Answer 2

Wordwrap works better in my opinion.

$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");
echo $newtext;

The above example will output:

The quick brown fox<br />
jumped over the lazy<br />
dog.

Another example:

$text = "A very long woooooooooooord.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", true);

echo "$newtext\n";

The above example will output:

A very
long
wooooooo
ooooord.