How do you pull first 100 characters of a string in PHP

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I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing     Is there a function that can do this easily   For example    string1    I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing     string2   100charfunction  string1   print  string2   To get   I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string vari

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small   substr  big  0  100     For String Manipulation here is a page with a lot of function that might help you in your future work

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You could use substr  I guess    string2   substr  string1  0  100     or mb substr for multi-byte strings    string2   mb substr  string1  0  100     You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance       to indicate that it was shortened   I guess there s allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted

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A late but useful answer   PHP has a function specifically for this purpose   mb strimwidth   string   mb strimwidth  string  0  100    string   mb strimwidth  string  0  97            optional characters for end

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x    1234567    echo substr   x  0  3       outputs 123  echo substr   x  1  1       outputs 2  echo substr   x  -2         outputs 67  echo substr   x  1          outputs 234567  echo substr   x  -2  1      outputs 6

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You could use substr  I guess    string2   substr  string1  0  100     or mb substr for multi-byte strings    string2   mb substr  string1  0  100     You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance       to indicate that it was shortened   I guess there s allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted

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try this function   function summary  str   limit 100   strip   false         str     strip    true  strip tags  str   str      if  strlen   str   gt   limit             str   substr   str  0   limit - 3           return  substr   str  0  strrpos   str                          return trim  str

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try this function   function summary  str   limit 100   strip   false         str     strip    true  strip tags  str   str      if  strlen   str   gt   limit             str   substr   str  0   limit - 3           return  substr   str  0  strrpos   str                          return trim  str

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x    1234567    echo substr   x  0  3       outputs 123  echo substr   x  1  1       outputs 2  echo substr   x  -2         outputs 67  echo substr   x  1          outputs 234567  echo substr   x  -2  1      outputs 6

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Without php internal functions   function charFunction  myStr   limit 100             result           for   i 0   i lt  limit   i               result     myStr  i             return  result          string1    I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing     echo charFunction  string1

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A late but useful answer   PHP has a function specifically for this purpose   mb strimwidth   string   mb strimwidth  string  0  100    string   mb strimwidth  string  0  97            optional characters for end

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x    1234567    echo substr   x  0  3       outputs 123  echo substr   x  1  1       outputs 2  echo substr   x  -2         outputs 67  echo substr   x  1          outputs 234567  echo substr   x  -2  1      outputs 6

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You could use substr  I guess    string2   substr  string1  0  100     or mb substr for multi-byte strings    string2   mb substr  string1  0  100     You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance       to indicate that it was shortened   I guess there s allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted

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You could use substr  I guess    string2   substr  string1  0  100     or mb substr for multi-byte strings    string2   mb substr  string1  0  100     You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance       to indicate that it was shortened   I guess there s allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted

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try this function   function summary  str   limit 100   strip   false         str     strip    true  strip tags  str   str      if  strlen   str   gt   limit             str   substr   str  0   limit - 3           return  substr   str  0  strrpos   str                          return trim  str

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x    1234567    echo substr   x  0  3       outputs 123  echo substr   x  1  1       outputs 2  echo substr   x  -2         outputs 67  echo substr   x  1          outputs 234567  echo substr   x  -2  1      outputs 6

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try this function   function summary  str   limit 100   strip   false         str     strip    true  strip tags  str   str      if  strlen   str   gt   limit             str   substr   str  0   limit - 3           return  substr   str  0  strrpos   str                          return trim  str

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Without php internal functions   function charFunction  myStr   limit 100             result           for   i 0   i lt  limit   i               result     myStr  i             return  result          string1    I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing     echo charFunction  string1

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