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suedechaser 
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 Topic: Feed first 100 characters
Posted: 10 October 2006 at 8:01am |
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Hi All,
I think this has been covered here - but I cannot find it anywhere.
Is there a way to modify an RSS post feed to only show the first - say - 100 characters and then (...read more)?
thank you in advance
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suede
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Scotty32
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 11:42am |
just do:
strMessage = Left(sarryRssTopics(7, intCurrentRecord),100) |
but if theres code to display a smiley, link or a picture it will cut it in half
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suedechaser
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 8:37pm |
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Hi Scotty,
Thanks for this.
Looking at the actual feed xml, it appears to count any message formatting into the total character count ( as message formatting appears to prefix the actual post in the xml! )
Do you know of an alternative that will count only the characters in the actual post message?
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suede
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 9:36pm |
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take out the html before counting.
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 10:42pm |
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Hi dfrancis,
Thanks for the tip!
I have to admit, after looking at the code, that I have no odea how to do that one. Is it possible for you to provide an example / hint please?
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suede
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 10:57pm |
Actually... there's a function already included in the forum... let me see if I can find it.
Edited by dfrancis - 10 October 2006 at 11:34pm
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Posted: 10 October 2006 at 11:33pm |
Correction!!!
Bruce has already done the work... all you need to do is this...
YourFullText = "long raw text including html"
ShortText = removeHTML(YourFullText, 100, False)
That's it!!!
To see how it works, review the removeHTML function in /functions/functions_filters.asp
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Posted: 11 October 2006 at 12:44am |
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Thanks dfrancis, thanks Bruce!!
...simply perfect.
regards
seude
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