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string manipulation on Gridview Cell Text

i'm sure this is really easy, but can some one help me figure out how
to prune a string in a cell on a gridview?

like

left(string,5) to return the first 5 characters of the string? I tried
doing it on the RowDataBound event with no luck.

thanks,
Jeff

Mar 15 '06 #1
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