Question

I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.

Is there a function that can do this easily?

For example:

$string1 = 'I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.'; $string2 = 100charfunction($string1); print $string2 

To get:

I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string vari 

Answer 1

$small = substr($big, 0, 100); 

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