Retrieving certain numbers of characters from string

But wont truncate the last word if it falls on the middle of the last word.

[Gian04]

I want to get the first 100 characters using mb_strimwidth [php.net]. But I dont want to truncate the last word if it falls on the middle of the last word.

Example :

The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog

Getting the 1st 22 characters will display

The quick brown fox j...

But I want to always display the full last word

The quick brown fox jump...

How can I do that?

Thanks!

[Habtom]

Tested and works:

$str = "The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog ";
$i = 0; $count = 0;
$exp = explode(" ", $str);
while ($count < 18) {
$an_val = $exp[$i];
$output .= $exp[$i] ." ";
$count = $count + strlen($an_val);
$i++;
}
echo $output;

But again, there is always better way of doing things.

Habtom