regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

^start of string

Group 1([\s\S]{1,200})

Character Class[\s\S]{1,200}

{1,200}matches between 1 and 200 characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Character Class[\s]+?

+?matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

Character Class[\s\S]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\Sany non-whitespace character

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^([\s\S]{1,200})[\s]+?[\s\S]+

New

I have a code snippet written in PHP that pulls a block of text from a database and sends it out to a widget on a webpage. The original block of text can be a lengthy article or a short sentence orrrr two; but for this widget I can't display more than, say, 200 characters. I could use substr() to chop off the text at 200 chars, but the result would be cutting off in the middle of words-- what I really want is to chop the text at the end of the last word before 200 chars.

Substitution

$1