Re: [PHP] just 10 characters from a string

2001-08-31 Thread Alexander Skwar 

So sprach »Marcos Lloret« am 2001-08-31 um 09:53:01 +0200 :
> i have a long string (about 255 characters) and i would like to show only 10. 
>how can i do it?

substr

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Re: [PHP] just 10 characters from a string

2001-08-31 Thread 


From: Marcos Lloret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:53:01AM +0200
Message-ID: <019701c131f1$f57bdfa0$371c94c1@mlloret>
Subject: [PHP] just 10 characters from a string

> hi to all,
> i have a long string (about 255 characters) and i would like to show only 10. 
>how can i do it?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> marcos





When it's about _showing_ 10 characters, and not to change the
string itself:

$yourString = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
printf ("%.10s", $yourString);



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RE: [PHP] just 10 characters from a string

2001-08-31 Thread Johan Vikerskog (ECS) 

$string=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz
$string = substr($string, 0, 10);

Thats all there is to it.

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hi to all,
i have a long string (about 255 characters) and i would like to show only 10. how 
can i do it?

thanks in advance,

marcos

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