limiting text to 200 chars

[jimberger]

Hi,

I want to pull a large bit of text from the database strip all the html from the text and then limit it to 200 chars. I can limit it to 200 chars no problem using substring but if the text contains a html tag like <em> and the </em> is not contaied within the 200 chars then the rest of the page is in italic. any ideas how to solve this problem?

thanks for your time
jimmy

 

[Guru7777]

You could use a regular expression on the entire text first, removing the html tags. Then, you can take a substring of 200 characters and then should be golden.

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