Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 05/22/06 08:01

samir.doshi@gmail.com wrote:

> I have job descriptions saved to my database table and want to call
> them to output them to a table but only want to output a portion of
> the saved job description....like the first 200 letters.
>
> How can I do that?

Depends on your language. In PHP, it would be: substr()

echo substr($jobdesc, 0, 200);

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