Anthony E. wrote: > i have a bunch of text in a scalar $text > How would I keep the word count to a maximum, and just > dump the rest.. ie - I only want the paragraph to > contain 500 words, and trash the rest.
I know this isn't exaclty what you asked... I'm taking a wild guess and thinking that what you want to do is show some sort of summary of various documents, and 500 words is a good size for a summary. If that's the case, then I would avoid the overhead of splitting and joining by simply taking the first n characters of the string, where n is about 500 words worth of characters. Assuming the average word has 6 characters in it: ,----[ code ] | my $summary_size = 6 * 500; | my $summary = $start_text; | $summary = substr $start_text, 0, $summary_size | if (length($start_text) > $summary_size); `---- Of course it all depends what you want to use the data for. -- Best Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
