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Re: use of substring in php [message #174595 is a reply to message #174592]

Tue, 21 June 2011 00:41

dougatmilmacdotcom
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In article <27917623-6bef-416e-8ce3-856e9dd20bd9(at)v10g2000yqn(dot)googlegroups(dot)com>, Co <vonclausowitz(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to cut down the name of the user to 10 characters so it will
> fit to the picture of the user.
> At this moment I use $firstnameCut = substr($firstname, 0, 10);
> However sometimes the name is like:
>
> Johannes Paul.
> with my code it will show: Johannes P
>
> How can I change this so if the second or third name doesn't fit
> within the 10 characters
> it will not be shown at all?

What will you do if the *first* name doesn't fit within 10 characters? In
English-speaking countries, "Christopher" (11 characters) is a fairly common
given name for men. I have a Polish friend whose given name is Wlodzimierz
(also 11 characters). In some languages (e.g. Thai or Malayalam) names can be
*much* longer than that.

Perhaps this will produce what you want:

a) if the 11th character is a space, truncate at 10 characters and quit
b) if there are no spaces in the first 10 characters, truncate at 10 and quit
c) if neither a) nor b) is true, search backward from the 10th character and
truncate at the first space you find.

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		use of substring in php By: Co on Mon, 20 June 2011 21:19
		Re: use of substring in php By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 20 June 2011 23:04
		Re: use of substring in php By: me on Tue, 21 June 2011 00:40
		Re: use of substring in php By: Allodoxaphobia on Tue, 21 June 2011 12:36
		Re: use of substring in php By: dougatmilmacdotcom on Tue, 21 June 2011 00:41
		Re: use of substring in php By: bobmct on Tue, 21 June 2011 01:16
		Re: use of substring in php By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 21 June 2011 09:04

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