1 is starting letter and 6 is the numbr of characters to include... Please let me know. Thanks! "Roberts, Mark (Tulsa)" <Mark.Roberts at Williams.com> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Javascript mailing list Javascript at LaTech.edu https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20040319/0d449e5d/attachment.htm>