Re: Reducing Strings to a certain length
| From: | Amit Arora | Date: | Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:16:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reducing Strings to a certain length | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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You can use the 'substr' function
$reduced_string = substr($str, 0, 60);
More info available at http://www.php.net/substr
Amit Arora
http://www.digitalamit.com
Cole Ashcraft wrote:
How would you reduce a string to a specified length? Say reduce 600 to 60 or abc to ab? Is there a PHP function for this? Will I have to write my own code? Cole