From: Subashini Kumar <subashinikumar@...>
Date: 2010-01-06T17:37:01+09:00
Subject: html formatted string -displaying only upto specific length

Hi

I have a string

str="<p>H<span style="font-family: impact,chicago;">g</span>enrik
Lundqvist,g<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">gh nv <span
style="font-family: wingdings,zapf dingbats;">gnm h fsgfb
g</span></span>the preternaturally handsome Swedish goalie for the New
York Rangers, may have been named one of test from Neskdufluh on
december <span style="font-family: symbol;">a</span> 2009</p>"

i want to display this with the html formatting as mentioned above in
the string.
But i want to display only first 15 charatcer.ie 15 characters inclusive
of spaces and other special charac
that is ,  i want to display  HgenrikLundqvis .
But it should be display with all the html formatting as it is in the
string "str".
please tell me how to display it like this.
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