showLim( item, length )

Shows the supplied item, but only up to the specified number of characters. Showing is just programmer oriented printing.

:-) showLim( "hello there", 6 );
"helloThere are 0 results
      

The above example is not a mistake, the showLim function doesn't print a newline at the end, so any subsequent output will be displayed directly afterwards. For showLim with a newline after, see showlnLim.

Supplied items are shown in different ways, depending on their type. In this respect the function behaves in exactly the same way as the showln function, so please see that documentation for details.