Hi there!

Im working on a text-application that lets you read a small text from the database on the startpage, and when you press "read more" you will get to read the whole text.

The "small" text may differ in leanght from different records, but I want my ASP code to limit the number of letters shown on the startpage (say a maximum of 350 letters) dispite the small text leangth (even if it is over 500 letters long, I still want only 350 letters show'n on the startpage). After 350 letters I want the ASP code to generate a "..." and "read more".

Anyone who knows how to make this possible?

Use the Left() function to get the left most X characters of a string.

Left(myString, 350)

It worked, thank you planoie! :)

I had imagined that it would include more string manipulation, but this was pretty easy... Oh well, great now that it works!

Well, you might consider a more advanced truncation such that you don't end up with a string getting truncated right in the middle of a wor...

You could look in the string at the character position you want to truncate at, then back up until you hit a space so that the truncation stops after a whole word.

Peter
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