My mistake: replace "something.substr" to "yourString.substr"; and yeah, w3schools.com rules.. o.O (I'm reading wml there.. and wmlScript) Quoting flavio <flavio at economisa.com.br>: > > > Was it tested? > It haven't worked for me.. > > > But that another one worked: > > var yourString = 'My Mail Box'; > var yourStringTruncated = something.substr(3, 4); > > If you want to search something inside the variable you must use > "stringObject.indexOf(searchString)" it returns the index of the first > searchString found (or lastIndexOf to get the last one) it returns -1 when > not > found. > > Hope to help, > -- > Flavio Gomes > flavio at economisa.com.br > > Citando "Roberts, Mark (Tulsa)" <Mark.Roberts at Williams.com>: > > > 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 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mensagem enviada através do WebMail NetSol (http://www.netsol.psi.br) > _______________________________________________ > Javascript mailing list > Javascript at LaTech.edu > https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mensagem enviada através do WebMail NetSol (http://www.netsol.psi.br)