[RESOLVED] Is there a string length command?

[coolcat]

I would like to display only the first 9 characters of a longer string.

I was looking at the rtrim function but that doesn't seems right...

Q: is there a function to do this?

like - string is: 'this is just a test'

and display : 'this is j'

[NogDog]

[man]substr/man

[coolcat]

Thanks NogDog - that worked great!