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David Jones	Wednesday 04 October 2006 4:34:25 am I have an object with lots of text. I wont to display the first 100 chars of it rather than the whole thing. I know I've seen this somewhere but I can't seem to find it now. Could somebody point me in the right direction please. Thanks
J-A Eberhard	Wednesday 04 October 2006 5:15:08 am Use the template operator shorten http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/reference/template_operators/strings/shorten Open Source Solution Provider Open-Net Ltd Switzerland http://www.open-net.ch
Xavier Dutoit	Wednesday 04 October 2006 8:35:27 am This being said, beware if your attribute is an xml text, as you might cut it between the start end the end of the tag (eg: <b> Char n°100 </b> Would cut the text before the </b> and might seriously screw up your layout. X+ http://www.sydesy.com
David Jones	Thursday 05 October 2006 12:51:13 am Thats the one, I knew I'd seen it just couldn't remember what to serach for. I tried all sorts of things. Anyway, Thanks guys.