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[John Smith]

Hi,

I'm trying to nicely display the results of a search but some results are
longer than others in length. Is there a way of only displaying the first 30
characters of a search result (i.e. enough to make sure they know what it is
but not enough to mess up the formatting of the page) ?

Any online tutorials etc. much appreciated.

[David C Holley]

Try a function something like this...

function truncateString(strString)
if len(string) > 30 then
truncateString = mid(strString, 1, 30)
else
truncateString = strString
end if
end function



John Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to nicely display the results of a search but some results are
> longer than others in length. Is there a way of only displaying the first 30
> characters of a search result (i.e. enough to make sure they know what it is
> but not enough to mess up the formatting of the page) ?
>
> Any online tutorials etc. much appreciated.
>
>

[Atrax]

> Is there a way of only displaying the first 30

> characters of a search result

Left()

see the VBScript docs at [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/[/url]



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Atrax wrote on 04 jul 2003 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

>> Is there a way of only displaying the first 30
>> characters of a search result

>
> Left()

Using Left what is Left out is the stuff on the Right,
so that what is Left is the stuff on the Left ?

Right ?

;-)

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