Question

How to pull first N characters of a string in PHP

Answer 1

$s = "PHP is a general-purpose scripting language 
      that is especially suited to web development.";
 
$N = 15;      
if (strlen($s) > $N)
    $s = substr($s, 0, $N) . "...";
 
echo $s;
 
 
/*
run:
  
PHP is a genera...
  
*/

 

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