How to count characters including white space and then break onto a new line after a certain length using PHP

How to count characters including white space and then break after a certain length for instance how would i break a string after 25 characters onto a new li开发者_开发问答ne using PHP?

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Fortunately somebody's already done the work. Use wordwrap.

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If you really want to reinvent the wheel for learning sake, here are a few pieces to get you started:

• for (...) { }
• strlen()
• $str[$x] to access character x of string $str
• %
• .

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Try chunk_split() if you don't mind cutting words in half. It treats whitespace as any other char.