Limiting characters from recordset

Report · Jul 24, 2006

I thought I use to have an extension that did this - hoping someone could point me in the right direction to find it again or the ASP VBScript code to make it work.

I am wanting to limit the number of characters that a record displays. Like 100 characters of the of article field and then the link to go to the full record somewhere else.

Thanks, Katherine

Report · Jul 26, 2006

You can use the Left command to cut the information like this which will
return the first 100 characters

<%
Dim Intro
Intro = Left(recordset.fields.item("Fieldname").value,100)
%>

Note though that this is a very blunt tool as it will chop words once the
100 characters is reached.

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"Awakekats" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I thought I use to have an extension that did this - hoping someone could
>point
> me in the right direction to find it again or the ASP VBScript code to
> make it
> work.
>
> I am wanting to limit the number of characters that a record displays.
> Like
> 100 characters of the of article field and then the link to go to the full
> record somewhere else.
>
> Thanks, Katherine
>