Try this: 

if(strlen($row->text)>50) {
    echo substr($row->text,0,47) . "...";
} else {
    echo $row->text;
}

- Audun

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Limit output of query field


Hi there,

Hope you can help me with the following:

I have a query and i'm showing the output:

echo $row->text;

That goes o.k. but the text is 400 characters long and I only one to
show the first 50 characters and at the end showing ... dot's..

Help!

Thank you very much!

Frank



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