PHP code for Substr - Making It Stop After A Word?
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/972010/shorten-string-in-php-full-words-only">Shorten String in PHP (full words only)</a>  </p>
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<p>Below substr which iam using . Which echo first 38 characters from my database. This code breaking the word which is at end .</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php echo substr(ucfirst($row['metadesc']),0,38); ?&gt;...
</code></pre>

<p>which output like this.</p>

<pre><code>news for today was null try tomo
</code></pre>

<p>how to stop the string after 38 characters after the end of word. </p>

<p>output should be like this </p>

<pre><code>news for today was null try tomorrow
</code></pre>
