From: Cryptographic_ICE@...
Date: 2007-09-18T04:15:07+09:00
Subject: Cropping text strings

Hello,

This statement here can return a very long paragraph
<%=h openjob.ProblemDesc %>

Is there a way to trim it to say the first 50 characters? In VBScript
I would use Left(). (I am working in ruby on rails if that matters)