Mike: Yeah (hitting head on wall), that will work! Thank you.
-Scott On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Mike Flynn wrote: > One option is to use substr(): > > $thestring = 'scott'; > $thestring = substr($thestring, 0, 3); > > At 03:02 PM 3/6/02 -0500, Scott St. John wrote: > >I am trying to create a file in which each line is exactly 255 characters > >long, some of the data I am importing is longer than the field allows. > >Does anyone know of a way to strip that data off at x character? Example, > >I have a 3 character field and the value being inserted into it is scott, > >I would only display sco > > > >Thanks, > > > >-Scott > -- -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
