From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T23:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Cropping text strings

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 18. Sep 2007, 04:41:14 +0900 schrieb Morton Goldberg:
> On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote:
>>> Is there a way to trim it to say the first 50 characters?
>
> As will the following:
>
>    openjob.ProblemDesc.first(50)

Cool. Here are two other ones:

  openjob.ProblemDesc[ 0, 50]
  openjob.ProblemDesc[ /.{50}/u]

Bertram


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