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URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=21549
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Topic: Feed first 100 characters

Posted By: suedechaser
Subject: Feed first 100 characters
Date Posted: 10 October 2006 at 8:01am

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

regards

suede

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date 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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Posted By: suedechaser
Date Posted: 10 October 2006 at 8:37pm

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?

regards

suede

Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 10 October 2006 at 9:36pm

take out the html before counting.

Posted By: suedechaser
Date Posted: 10 October 2006 at 10:42pm

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?

regards

suede

Posted By: dfrancis
Date 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.

Posted By: dfrancis
Date 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

Posted By: suedechaser
Date Posted: 11 October 2006 at 12:44am

Thanks dfrancis, thanks Bruce!!

...simply perfect.

regards

seude