[SOLVED] Chop off everything > 70 characters from string.. Rtrim? Forgot function. noob

[edwardtilbury]

I'm trying to remember how to chop off everything that is over 70 characters in a variable... I'm trying to make my xml file compatible with google base.. and my descriptions cannot be over 70 characters.. there's a function that does this.. I  just can't remember what is it.. I know in visual basic It's something like that.

 

Thanks!

 

(I'm a php noob, so forgive me if this is totally obvious, I looked, I didn't see it, or a clear example of how to accomplish this.)

[edwardtilbury]

I solved my own question...

 

Here it is..

substr($description, 0, 70);

 

 

See example #3

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[Maq]

Excellent, please mark as [sOLVED] so people know.  Thanks!