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[martian2k4]

How can i limit the number of charecters from a record i've got from the database. In php i'd use the function substr.

Thanks

[Fenrir2]

the_string[0,the_number_of_characters]

[martian2k4]

Thanks

[XMG-Eric]

For a "Rails" based solution there's also:

truncate(0, string)

[Fenrir2]

And Rails magically knows how many characters you want

[MiiJaySung]

You also want to look at validates_length_of (Model classmethod)

You'd be better using validation to assert a string is too big, and let the user fix it rather than randomly truncate a string unexpectantly to the user.

If validation is no worry, then yea, somestring[0, length] will do, or doing somestring[start..end] where start and end are integers will also work.

validation is really the way forward though imo for this