Forums / Developer / Display first 100 chars
David Jones
Wednesday 04 October 2006 4:34:25 am
I have an object with lots of text. I wont to display the first 100 chars of it rather than the whole thing.
I know I've seen this somewhere but I can't seem to find it now.
Could somebody point me in the right direction please.
Thanks
J-A Eberhard
Wednesday 04 October 2006 5:15:08 am
Use the template operator shorten
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/template_operators/strings/shorten
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Xavier Dutoit
Wednesday 04 October 2006 8:35:27 am
This being said, beware if your attribute is an xml text, as you might cut it between the start end the end of the tag (eg: <b> Char n°100 </b> Would cut the text before the </b> and might seriously screw up your layout.
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Thursday 05 October 2006 12:51:13 am
Thats the one, I knew I'd seen it just couldn't remember what to serach for. I tried all sorts of things.
Anyway, Thanks guys.