Split long string into little ones. - trying to find an elegant way for doing so.

Question

Hello all,

If the string is bigger then 50 chars long, I need to split it. The maximum allowed is 3 chunks of 50. It could be less then 50 but never more then 150. I don't need any special chars to be added, or to serve as "splitters"; I can break the string anywhere, no problem, since the propose is not for showing it to the user.

if (strlen($street) > 50)
{
  $streetPart1 = substr($street,0,50);
  $streetPart2 = substr($street,51,100);
  $streetPart3 = substr($street,101,150);
}

Is there a more elegant way for doing this?

UPDATE:

An example of what would arrive next:

if (strlen($street) > 50)
{
   $streetPart1 = substr($street,0,50);

   $streetPart2 = substr($street,51,100);

   $streetPart3 = substr($street,101,150);

   if(!empty($streetPart2) && empty($streetPart3) 
   {
      //add part2 only.
   }elseif(!empty($streetPart2 && !empty($streetPart3))
   {
     //add part 2 and part 3
   }
}

Thanks a lot. MEM

Answer 1

Check the PHP's wordwrap() function.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.wordwrap.php

And check out the explode() function

http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

Answer 2

<?
    function wrapAndCropToArray($text, $width, $lines)
    {
        $ret = array_slice(
            explode("\n",wordwrap($text,$width,"\n",true))
            , 0
            , $lines+1
        );
        if(isset($ret[$lines]))
            $ret[$lines] = "...";
        return $ret;
    }

    $test = "aadfuiosdy 34 123 412 341f2 38947 1029 384h120 39uh4 19023h 41234";
    var_dump(wrapAndCropToArray($test,10,3));
?>

Will output:

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(10) "aadfuiosdy"
  [1]=>
  string(10) "34 123 412"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "341f2"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "..."
}

Answer 3

You may simply use str_split:

$parts = str_split($string, 50);

// if you want to have vars instead of array:
list($part1, $part2, $part3) = str_split($string, 50);