Hi,

I'm working on returning some results from a DB and only want to return the first 100 characters. I've gotten to this point, but it seems to have problems...

<?
$text = $row1[NewsDescription];
preg_match('#^\s*(.{100,}?)\s+.*$#', $text, $match2);
echo $match2[0].' ...';
?>

that should return somthing like...

blah blah blah blah blah ...

but it doesnt work properly, is there a different way to achieve the same result?

Cheers
Ash:)

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Hi

To just print out the first (whatever) number of characters of a returned variable use:

substr($variable, 100)

This will print out the first 100 characters

HTH
David