[pmwiki-users] Excerpt from PTV?

[Simon]

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/MarkupExpressions

On 10/12/2008, noskule at gmx.net <noskule at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> > TIA,
> >
> > Russ
> >
> >
> >
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