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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:10 pm 
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$text = 'Extract the text with first 45 characters from this string.';
$nrw = 6;

echo join(" ", array_slice(str_word_count($text, 1, '0..9'), 0, $nrw));
 
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:47 am 
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But if you have comma, dot or other punctuations in text, using array_slice() will lose the punctuations.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:56 am 
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It depends on what is actually needed. As the title goes, punctuation does not belong to 'words'
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:10 am 
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Yes, You are right. I wrote that code to get the "n" first words from a text, that to add a Read more ..
In this usage is needed to keep the punctuations, and also not break words.
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