Show only first x characters of string
| From: | mailing | Date: | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:47:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Show only first x characters of string | ||
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Hi
I am trying to find a function that only shows the first 20 characters of a
string.
Eg :
$string = "A very long paragraph would be shown here"
$dots = "...";
echo $string $dots;
actually prints
A very long paragrap...
etc.
Many thanks
James