One way would be to use Variable = substr(variable,1,6); Mark Roberts Sr. Systems Analyst -----Original Message----- From: Innerlab [mailto:innerlab at hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:08 PM To: [JavaScript List] Subject: [Javascript] Truncate strings How do you truncate a string to a certain number of characters? Thanks Ed. _______________________________________________ Javascript mailing list Javascript at LaTech.edu https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript