[thelist] MySQL extracting a teaser from a text field

[Noah St.Amand]

Matt Warden wrote (8/22/05 6:49 PM):
> Noah St.Amand wrote:
> 
>>>I'm trying to find the best way to extract a teaser from a text field in
>>>MySQL.

Thanks everyone for your help with this. I ended up appending a "." to 
the field in the query. It may be a little hacky, but the result is 
exactly what I want.

Cheers,
Noah

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