Re: Show only first x characters of string
| From: | Marek Kilimajer | Date: | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:53:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Show only first x characters of string | ||
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mailing wrote:
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