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abockover Deleted Jan 22, 2001, 12:07 PM Post #1 of 2 (1090 views) Truncating Variable Values Can't Post How can I truncate a variable value? Say I have the variable $url the value to $url = "http://bobs_house.somelamewebpagehostingsite.com/~bob/joe/cat/jon/21541c.html"; I only want the first 25 characters of $url, after the 25th character, add "..." and remove characters 26 and up Thanks, Aaron

sleuth Enthusiast / Moderator Jan 22, 2001, 12:31 PM Post #2 of 2 (1088 views) Re: Truncating Variable Values [In reply to] Can't Post   You want to use the substr(); function, First you should check to see if there are more than 25 characters though, you can use length(); for that. if (length($variable) > 25){ $variable = substr($variable, 0, 25); $variable .= " ...."; } Explanations on Using Substr Tony

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