[Phoenixone]

hi guys i am trying to shorten the amount of text shown for my testimonials

so for instance i don't want the whole testimonial to show just say 100 characters.

how would i set the code for this:

here is my code that fetches the testamonial text

<td align="left">
            {$test.testimonial|replace:"\n":"<br>"}
            </td> 

so what do i add to that to shorten the length?
help please