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I need to extract the first several words from a paragraph of text contained in
a $var,
so as to get the longest extract that's less than or equal to 200 characters.
My brute-force-and-ignorance method is: blah some more text here etc etc
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[194] 'I need to extract the first several words from a paragraph of text contai
ned in a $var, so as to get the longest extract that's less than or equal to 200
 characters. My brute-force-and-ignorance'