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[PHP] Re: splitting a string in half From: Richard Lynch (ceo <email protected>)
Date: 07/31/01

> I wish to split my databased string in half to be shown on 2 seperate
> columns, but also preserve whole words. Is there a function that does this
> already? Maybe a quick fix? Hopefully something that doesn't include html
> tags as part of the string to split. If it's not that specific then that's
> okay.

I suppose that this would work if it weren't for the HTML tags inside your
text:

$text = "Suppose this text was really long.";
$half_length = (int) strlen($text) / 2;
$split = wordwrap($text, $half_length, "</TD><TD>");
echo "<TABLE><TR><TD>$split</TD></TR></TABLE>";

Now, once you throw HTML tags into your string, you are in a much trickier
problem... Don't really see *any* solution for that in a general sense,
since somebody could use a tag that spans the entire text, and then you
can't break it in half at all... 

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