2007/8/20, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> how do I truncate a string (in the template) after a certain amount
> of characters?

It's not difficult to create custom filters. For example

from django.template import Library

register = Library()

@register.filter
def truncate(value, arg):
  try:
    return value[:int(arg)]
  except ValueError:
    return value

-- 
Stefan Matthias Aust

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