[ZPT] Truncating strings

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Eron,

Eron Lloyd wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of a simple way to truncate string insertions in a ZPT? What 
> I'm looking for is basically a replacement for dtml-var's "size" and "etc" 
> attributes. I would do it on the MySQL side but that doesn't seem to have 
> such a function, either.
> 
While I think you are probably able to import such formating functions
from DTMLMethod and co., you could at least use a python script to
format to your needs.
Since you can run your output of the ZSQL methods thru a python script
anyway (for default arguments, basic request caching and other
modifications on the resultset) you can do the string modification
as well.

Regards
Tino Wildenhain