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DannyK89DannyK89 

Getting a certain length of characters from a Long Text Area Field

I was wonderting if there is a way to get a certain number of characters from a Long Text Area Field. I only want 500 Characters of the Long Text Area Field. 

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WizradWizrad

500 random characters?  The first 500?  The last 500?

 

Search the following page for "String" and click the result "String Methods".  Look into the substring method.

 

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/index_Left.htm#StartTopic=Content/apex_qs_HelloWorld.htm

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WizradWizrad

500 random characters?  The first 500?  The last 500?

 

Search the following page for "String" and click the result "String Methods".  Look into the substring method.

 

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/index_Left.htm#StartTopic=Content/apex_qs_HelloWorld.htm

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Ankit AroraAnkit Arora

Get the value from text area field in string and do something like this :

 

String textAreaStr = Your_Text_Area_Value ;
textAreaStr = textAreaStr.substring(0 , 499) ;

 

Thanks

Ankit Arora

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