[thelist] ASP newbie with needs help asking a question

[Rob Smith]

Hi Rob

First off bookmark this page: (it's saved me tons o time)
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_examples.asp

Then look here:
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/showasp.asp?filename=demo_asp_right

You want the "left" function

strings = "This is a really long sentence."

response.write left(strings, 10) & "..." 

output:

This is a re...

Enjoy!

rob