Limiting the size of variable responce

[DrTrans]

 

What I'm trying to do is this:

 

$text = "this is just a bunch of random text";

 

$stext = "substr('$text', 10);

 

echo " $stext";

 

 

i want $stext to only give me the first 10 characters of the original string. I dont know if the substr function would do this trick? any assistance I'm sure its simple

[trq]

You have misplaced quotes all over the place.

 

$text = "this is just a bunch of random text";
$stext = substr($text, 0, 10); 
echo $stext;