From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T04:20:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Cropping text strings

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openjob.ProblemDesc[0..49] should do the trick.

On 9/17/07, Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com <Cryptographic_ICE@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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)
>
>
>


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