pepeloper · March 20, 2017 12:58 · Mar 20, 2017
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+# Drupal Snippet
+
+In this snippet we will know how to trim any string in Drupal way using the [truncate_utf8](https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!unicode.inc/function/truncate_utf8/7.x) function
+
+## Code
+
+```php
+truncate_utf8($string, $max_length, $wordsafe = FALSE, $add_ellipsis = FALSE, $min_wordsafe_length = 1)
+```
+So for example we can do something like this:
+
+```php
+$text = 'Here we have a large text saying nothing';
+truncate_utf8($text, 12);
+// Here we have a l
+```
+
+```php
+$text = 'Here we have a large text saying nothing';
+truncate_utf8($text, 12, TRUE);
+// Here we have a
+```
+
+```php
+$text = 'Here we have a large text saying nothing';
+truncate_utf8($text, 12, TRUE, TRUE);
+// Here we have...
+```