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Accessing Substrings: string substr ( string string, int start [, int length] )

 
<?php 

$theclientstext = "this is a test. this is another test"; 

if (strlen ($theclientstext) >= 30){ 
    echo substr ($theclientstext,0,29); 
} else { 
    echo $theclientstext; 
} 
?>
  
  








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