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will.blaschko
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Post Search Description Truncation 
I was just wondering if it were possible to truncate a description of an item after a certain number of words. Well, I know how to write the perl to do it, just how would I install it into the item/search template? Thanks!!
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will.blaschko
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<!--agorascript-post

{
$mystring = "%%description%%";
local ($size, @bob, $x);
@bob=split / /, $mystring;
$mystring="";
$size=@bob;
if($size>75){
$size=75;
}

for($x=0;$x<$size;$x++){
$mystring .="$bob[$x] ";
}
if($size>75){
$mystring .="... (read more)";
}

$mystring; # return this value, it is the last statement executed
}
-->


Is what I have so far, but it's not working... it always shows me an error page saying "We're sorry, an error has occured. Please hit the browser back button, change what was done in error, and try again." I've tried changing the post to pre, but then the description doesn't get shortened...
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will.blaschko
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nevermind, I just took the data directly using the database and keys and fixed it that way. Sorry to be a bother
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Please feel free to post your solution as there may be others who may like to take advantage of it.


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will.blaschko
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It's far from elegant, but:

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<!--agorascript-post
{
local $mystring = $database_fields[5]; #gets the 5th field of the database, in this case is the description
$mystring =~ s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs; #remove all HTML tags from the description
local ($size, @splitSpace, $x);
@splitSpace=split / /, $mystring;
$mystring="";
$size=@splitSpace;
if($size>75){
$size=75;
}
for($x=0;$x<$size;$x++){
$mystring .="$splitSpace[$x] ";
}
$mystring .="... (<a href=agora.cgi?p_id=".$database_fields[0]."&xm=on>read more</a>)";
$mystring; # return this value, it is the last statement executed
}
-->


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Thanks for posting that!!


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