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<?php function check_plain($text) { return htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); } $str = '<strong>foobar</strong>'; print strlen($str) . "\n"; $maxlength = 4; $cutlength = $maxlength; while (0 < $delta = $maxlength - strlen(check_plain(substr($str, 0, $cutlength)))) { $cutlength += $delta; } print "\n" . $delta . "\n"; print substr($str, 0, $cutlength);
Output for 4.3.2 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
23 -3 <str
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.1
23
Process exited with code 139.

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