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I have a string, 12345.00 , and I would like it to return 12345.0 . I have looked at trim , but it looks like it is only trimming whitespace and slice which I don't see how this would work. Any suggestions? Jon Erickson You can use the substring function: var str = "12345.00"; str = str.substring(0, str.length - 1); // "12345.0" This is the accepted answer, but as per the conversations below, the slice syntax is much clearer: var str = "12345.00"; str = str.slice(0, -1); // "12345.0" You can use slice ! You just have to make sure you know how to use it. Positive #s are relative to the

How can I retrieve a text field from mysql db table, but not the entire text, just the few 40 or so characters. Can this be done in sql or do I need to do it using php? basically what I am trying to do is show the first x characters and then let the user click on that to view the full content. jensgram SELECT LEFT(field, 40) AS excerpt FROM table(s) WHERE ... See the LEFT() function. As a rule of thumb , you should never do in PHP what MySQL can do for you. Think of it this way: You don't want to transmit anything more than strictly necessary from the DB to the requesting applications. EDIT If

I have a string, 12345.00 , and I would like it to return 12345.0 . I have looked at trim , but it looks like it is only trimming whitespace and slice which I don't see how this would work. Any suggestions? Jon Erickson You can use the substring function: var str = "12345.00"; str = str.substring(0, str.length - 1); // "12345.0" This is the accepted answer, but as per the conversations below, the slice syntax is much clearer: var str = "12345.00"; str = str.slice(0, -1); // "12345.0" You can use slice ! You just have to make sure you know how to use it. Positive #s are relative to the