If string too long then trim it
$mystring = strlen($mystring) > 500 ? substr($mystring,0,500)."..." : $mystring;
Remove last # characters
if (strlen($MyString >= 3))
$MyString_Modified = substr($MyString, 0, (strlen($MyString) - 3) );
else
$MyString_Modified = "";
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