A LEFT function?

I have a spry data set that has a field postComment that can
be quite long. I can use {postComment} to show the whole thing.
Is there anything that would allow me to do something like
showing the first 50 characters or such? Would be like a teaser.
Looked over docs quickly and forum, but didn't see anything
like this.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Keith

Hi Keith,
You can use an onPostLoad() handler to create a "teaser"
column for your data set.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<script src="SpryAssets/xpath.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryData.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<div spry:region="ds1">
<pre spry:repeatchildren="ds1">{teaser}
</pre>
</div>
</body>
</html>
--== Kin ==--

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