[pmwiki-users] Excerpt from PTV?

noskule at gmx.net noskule at gmx.net
Tue Dec 9 06:12:52 CST 2008


Russ wrote:
> I have a site using Fox to accept content from a form and save the 
> fields as PTV's.  Some forms submit multi-line content, but when 
> displaying those PTV's (i.e. through a page list) I don't necessarily 
> need the entire variable displayed, but would prefer to limit it to a 
> certain number of characters (i.e. show first 50 characters of each PTV 
> via a pagelist).
>
> Is this possible?
>   
try something like this:

{(substr "{*:$PTV}" 2 3)}


grz nos

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> Russ
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