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[roblen]

Hi I am trying to print from the 180th character position using the smarty truncate function. Can only get it to print from starting starting position and not starting from the middle of the string.

is there a way of doing this with truncate or is there a another function.?

{$product.descr|truncate:85} this prints the first 85 characters. I need to be able to print from starting to ending positions

in php i would use substr

thanks
rob

[amy2203]

see if this helps

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.modifiers.php

[roblen]

Thanks for your reply but i could not find the way to do it that way.
i added my code to the product.php page

### Split up product description
$desc1 = substr($product_info["descr"] , 0, 244);
$desc6 = substr($product_info["descr"] , 248,45);
$desc7 = substr($product_info["descr"] , 297,45);
$smarty->assign("desc1", $desc1);
$smarty->assign("desc6", $desc6);
$smarty->assign("desc7", $desc7);

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rob.

[geckoday]

Read that Smarty modifier page a little closer. All PHP functions are implicitly usable as Smarty modifiers. Try:

{$product.descr|truncate:244}
{$product.descr|substr:248:45}
{$product.descr|substr:297:45}

[roblen]

Thank you. This is very useful to know.
rob