Smarty Template Question

[bgolat]

Is it possible with smarty to somehow limit the text displayed? For example say I have something like

<h1>{$headline}</h1>
<p>{$article}</p>

and I wanted to restrict the # of characters (and possibly add "..." at the end of it if it was to long), how could I do this?

[Jelena]

Take a look at truncate modifier.

[bgolat]

Thanks!

[magicman6452]

Good Question!

Is it possible to do this using just PHP?
For example, if the text displayed is over 45 characters, is it possible to delete the remaining characters, and add "..." to the end?