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beer-monkey.com
Posted: 02/27/2002, 1:58 AM

I would like to display for example the first 250 characters of a record description and on the at the end of it have ...

For example:

Experienced in Software sales (preferably GIS) into Electricity Utilities or the wider utility market. The Sales Executive will be responsible for generating new business within the UK Electricity sect...

What i would like it do is that if the record description is less than 250 characters it should display all the decription, but it is more than 250 characters it should chop off the remaining description and replace it with ...

Thanks in advance

Ken Hardwick
Posted: 02/27/2002, 2:49 AM

Check out function at...
Parse Text without splitting words by Luke Latimer
http://www.aspfree.com/authors/Luke_Latimer/parsetext.asp

   


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