A stupid question...

Does php have a function that truncates the recordset returned?

In other words, I want to retrieve a bunch of text from a text field, but only want to show the first 10 characters.

example
(Returned value = This is the long part of the text field that I want to truncate.)

(What I want to print = This is the ...)

I know this can be done in MS Access with a Left() expressions, but not sure how to do it in php.

Can't find anything in mySQL or php manual. (mainly because I am not sure what to look for.

Thanks in advance,
Jacob

use the substr() function

I am a bonehead... I knew that too... D'OH.

I have just been dealing with numbers for so long that I got freaked when I had to start dealing with the text again.

Thanks,
Jacob

i always forget it to... and then i look in the manual index, under str..., and don't find it cause it's under sub...

doh!