Split Strings in Half (Word-Aware) with PHP

Question

I\'m trying to split strings in half, and it should not split in the middle of a word.

So far I came up with the following which is 99% working :

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Answer 1

Just change the line:

$half = (int)ceil(count($words = (count(explode(" ",$text))) / 2);

str_word_count() may not count : or / as word.