Truncate string to last full stop | Thread profile

Hi All Im sure someone will have this in a library somewhere. I'm printing out a string of text, but when printing only have a certain area in which I can put said text, I currently truncate the text string and add a few dots if it overspills the area, but this looks a bit 'unfinished' on the printed document. What Id like to do is truncate the text back to the last full stop (period), Im ...

are you willing to live with situations where the period is part of an abbreviation? also, what about sentences that end with ! or ? might get you close: PHP Code: function abbr($str, $maxLen) { if (strlen($str) > $maxLen && $maxLen > 1) { preg_match("#^.{1,".$maxLen."}\.#s", $str, $matches); return $matches[0]; } else { return $str; } }

I take your point (pun intended), adding the ! and ? to the . should be quite easy. The text is actually an abbrievated description of an item, entered into a DB for this sole purpose, it would be very unusual for abbrieated words to be in this description. And if one was found it could easily be changed by the operator before printing the document. edit: Thanks for the code I'll have a play ...

Works like a charm, thanks.