Selecting 50 Words from a string

I have a string that contains over 1200 chars. I want to on开发者_Python百科ly select the first 50 words.

the string is $row['message']. I am confused between explode and substr.

Thanks.

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$words = preg_split('/\s+/', $row['message']);

$words = array_slice($words, 0, 50);

This code should do it.

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Try

$words = str_word_count($row['message'], 1);
$first50Words = array_slice($words, 0, 50);

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function firstNwords($str,$n){
    return preg_replace('/((\b\w+\b.*?){'.$n.'}).*$/s','$1',$str);
}