Regular Expression how show only 50 symbols of the text link?

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Hello! i have regular expression:

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return preg_replace("/(http|ftp|https):\/\/([^\s]+)/", "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://$2\">$2</a>",$str);

I want that text link will be not longer that 50 symbols

For example: http://goo...

How tomodify this expression? Thank you! Its a very hard for me now

Posted 23-May-13 9:24am

Jardin1

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2013-05-23T09:35:00

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You don't need regular expression for that:

PHP

function makelink($url, $limit=50){
  $text = strlen($url) > $limit ? substr($url, 0, $limit).'...' : $url;
  return "<a href='$url' target='_blank'>$text</a>";
}

echo makelink("http:\\www.google.com", 10);

Posted 23-May-13 9:35am

Zoltán Zörgő

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Maciej Los 23-May-13 15:43pm

+5

Zoltán Zörgő 23-May-13 15:52pm

Thank you.