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Hi b0lsc0tt,<br />
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Thank you for the quick answer! Exactly what I was looking for but had trouble finding it in the manual...<br />
<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php</a><br />
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-Julian.
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Hi b0lsc0tt,

Thank you for the quick answer! Exactly what I was looking for but had trouble finding it in the manual...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php [http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php]

-Julian.

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julianmatz,<br />
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Glad I could help. &nbsp;Thanks for the fun question, grade and points.
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julianmatz,

Glad I could help.  Thanks for the fun question, grade and points.

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Hello!<br />
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I'm looking for the function to get the first x_number of characters from a string...<br />
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For example:<br />
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The string &quot;This string of text is a little bit too long.&quot; should be displayed as:<br />
&quot;This string of text is...&quot;
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Hello!

I'm looking for the function to get the first x_number of characters from a string...

For example:

The string "This string of text is a little bit too long." should be displayed as:
"This string of text is..."

Strings

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