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ddragas
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Return xx nuber of letters

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Hi all

How to return first 30 letters from text in variable?

$text = "It costs thousands of dollars a year to pay for this sites' bandwidth and maintenance. Without your continued support, sacred-texts would go offline or have to be scaled back. Your support is crucial; this site does not receive grants or institutional support";


Result should be "It costs thousands of dollars "
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substr.

Powerful stuff, that manual, isn't it?

edit: "Ar, Ar!", said the pirate. You're getting slow, feyd ;)
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:arrow: substr()

nicely done snipe patrik!
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Post by ddragas »

Thank you

I've misslooked it.


One more question.

When long text is retrived from db it does not have "return" separator (\n) and on page text is displayed all together.

How to separate it?
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To explain myself better

output of text from db sholud be

What engleski?
STVARALA�TVO IZME�U DVA RATA 1918-1939.

Stvarala�tvo Ivana Me�trovi�a dijeli se na dvije razine: kiparsku i idejnu. Idejna razina dijeli se na jo� dva dijela: narodno-proro�ku politi�ku i religiozno-metafizi�ku. Me�trovi�eva narodno-proro�ka epoha zavr�ila je u dr�avotvornosti, a religiozna je imala stalnu tendenciju uspona sve do


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What engleski?STVARALA�TVO IZME�U DVA RATA 1918-1939. Stvarala�tvo Ivana Me�trovi�a dijeli se na dvije razine: kiparsku i idejnu. Idejna razina dijeli se na jo� dva dijela: narodno-proro�ku politi�ku i religiozno-metafizi�ku. Me�trovi�eva narodno-proro�ka epoha zavr�ila je u dr�avotvornosti, a religiozna je imala stalnu tendenciju uspona sve do
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New lines aren't rendered in (X)HTML. Pass it through nl2br()
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Thank you all
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