Snippet Name: Echo 'n' number of words
Description: To get the first 250 words offset you can use php.net/stripos in a loop like this.
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Language: PHP
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Last Modified: February 27th, 2009
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<?PHP
$the_string = "a very long string of words";
$space_offset = 0;
$space_num = 0;
WHILE($space_num <= 250){
$space_offset = stripos($the_string, ' ',$space_offset + 1);
$space_num++;
}
?>
// after the loop completes, $space_offset will have the offset
// of the space just before the 250th word. |
