hi,

i've been searching high and low for a method that will help me do this for
a couple of days, but decided eventually just to post here in the hope
someone can point out the probably blatantly obvious for me :)

i'm looking for something that can take a string and truncate it to a
certain amount of characters. then i can add '...' at the end.

i used to use substr() when working with php

 $str = substr( $str, 0, 200) . "...";

many thanks
luke