[PHP] First 30 characters of a strong

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Re: [PHP] First 30 characters of a strong

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 14:52 -0400, Ron Piggott wrote: How do I display the first 5 characters of a string? $string=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz; my desired output is abcde substr($string, 0, 5); Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To