Trim text to 340 chars

Question

I\'m pulling blog posts from a DB. I want to trim the text to a max length of 340 characters.

If the blog post is over 340 characters I want to trim the text to the las

Answer 1

try:

preg_match('/^.{0,340}(?:.*?)\b/siu', $text, $matches);
echo $matches[0] . '...';