Grabbing first 100 chars of first post?

edited June 2007 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Hey,

Looking to grab, say the first 100 chars or so of the first post and add it to the Discussion topic's "<'a'>" as the "name", so when people hover over it, they can get a preview of what it's about.... Might do the same for last response..., any1 know of an EASY way? I'm thinking SQL might have to get involved, which isn't a biggie. I was hoping some one knew of a way to get x amount of chars from any of the elements, with php.

In the Ocean style, I'm thinking I'd have to use one of these if that was possible -" $CommentList " or "$Comment->Body."

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