[ic] Truncating Search Results

[kyle@invisio.com]

Maybe something like:

[calc]
$max_length = 100;
$out = q{[PREFIX-description]};
if (length($out) > $max_length) {
	# chop it down to max length
	$out = substr($out,0,$max_length);
	# now remove any char's up to & include last space
	# because we may have chopped up word
	$out =~ s/ [^ ]*$//;
	# now tack on ' ...' to indicate there is more.
	return $out . " ..."; 
}
return $out;
[/calc]

Could make it a user-tag if you need to reference it in many places.

Kyle (KC)

At 07:22 PM 5/14/01 , you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am currently displaying the category (custom field), description and
>comment fields.  Unfortuantely, some of my comment fields are very long,
>and I would like to truncate them to ~100 characters or so.  Anyone know
>of a way to do this?
>
>thanks,
>.cfg
>
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