Cut-off a string after the fourth line-break

Question

I've got the problem, that I want to cut-off a long string after the fourth line-break and have it continue with "..."

<?php
$teststring = "asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n";
?>

should become:

<?php
$teststring = "asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa\n
               asddsadsadsadsaa...";
?>

I know how to break the string after the first \n but I don't know how to do it after the fourth.

I hope you can help me.

Answer 1

you can explode the string and then take all the parts you need

$newStr = ""; // initialise the string
$arr = explode("\n", $teststring);
if(count($arr) > 4) { // you've got more than 4 line breaks
   $arr = array_splice($arr, 0, 4); // reduce the lines to four
   foreach($arr as $line) { $newStr .= $line; } // store them all in a string
   $newStr .= "...";
} else {
   $newStr = $teststring; // there was less or equal to four rows so to us it'all ok
}