don’t ask – i just need this:

{{string | truncate:n}}

ok, if you really want to know: i want to do stuff with “variant.sku”, namely reduce it from 9 characters to 6 (to create a related product family containing all products characterized by the first 6 characters of the full 9-character sku string)

what truncate does now is this: let’s take sku: ABC123XYZ

• truncate 0 → ... (and same result for truncate 1 to 3)
• truncate 4 → A…
• truncate 5 → AB…
• truncate 6 → ABC…
• truncate 7 → ABC1…
• truncate 8 → ABC12…
• truncate 9 → ABC123XYZ

none of which seems terribly useful.

if i’m trying to get just ABC123 - nothing more nothing less – that’s impossible.

so…if you can spare a few minutes of mad coding time :)?

edited despondently: oh never mind – that won’t be much use without a wildcard or a “contains”, will it? so maybe i’d be pushing my luck asking for 2 for the price of one on a monday night, what with all the goings-on on the fancy new dashboard. g’night all!