Re: REGEX? SQL? Getting only so much from a long field

Hi John: What about redesigning your DB adding a 'short_story' field that you can populate from your current long_story field with the strtok("<BR>") command? Alain On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:38:21PM -0400, Asendorf, John wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got some long stories in a news database. I want to make a little > "preview" type function that only spits out the first paragraph and then > says "read the rest"... what I can't figure out is how to have it just > read the field up to the first <br> tag. (all of the stories have these > added when the story is put into the database. Any suggestions? > > John > > --------------------- > John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com > Web Applications Developer > http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! > Licking County, Ohio, USA > 740-349-3631 > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net