At 23:29 07.11.2002, conbud said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Say I have a sentence that contains 8 words, how do I get PHP to list just 4 >of those 8 words ? --------------------[snip]--------------------
Let's assume your words are delimited by one or more blanks, so you could: $arwords = split(' ',$sentence); // make an array $arwords = array_slice($arwords, 0, 4); // return the first 4 entries echo join(' ', $arwords); // and show them -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php