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How can I remove the first 10 characters from displaying for entries in channel tags?

I have the following:

{exp:channel:entries channel="twitter" limit="5" orderby="date" sort="desc" status="open" dynamic="no" }
 {tweet}
{/exp:channel:entries}

This displays tweets that ive imported to a channel. The problem is that twitter adds ‘MyUsername: ’ to beginning of every tweet and there’s no way I know of to stop this happening with the twitter API.

So I have something like:

MyCompnay: This is my first tweet!

But what I need is:

This is my first tweet!

Thanks

Look for a plugin on Devot-ee called Hacksaw.

Ive already got that module installed but dont think it can do what i need. It can limit then number of characters, but thats not what im after.

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/hacksaw

Then I’d search the related string-manipulated plugins on Devot-ee. There’s bound to be one that will do a simple truncate from left type manipulation.

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/trimmer  does it nicely. Thanks

Hi James,

I’m glad to see you found a solution for your needs. Is there anything else we can assist you with?

Cheers!

No, im all good, Thanks.

I’m going to close out this thread, but feel free to post again when you have more questions.

Sean