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WingNut 2008.02.15, 06:26PM — PHP - limit string to a certain number of characters

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if i have a string that is, say, over 20 characters, and i only want to display 15 characters, how do i do that?

i thought i was maybe str_pad, but that doesn't seem to work on shorter string lengths?

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Technomancer 2008.02.15, 06:44PM —

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echo  substr($my_long_string,0,15)

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WingNut 2008.02.15, 06:50PM —

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beautious! thanks

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