From b6df895df80955744d751c3ad937eea4273bce52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: astaxie <xiemengjun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:47:39 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] add template func Substr function

---
 template.go | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/template.go b/template.go
index 5d2c4fa3..c513567d 100644
--- a/template.go
+++ b/template.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func init() {
 	beegoTplFuncMap["dateformat"] = DateFormat
 	beegoTplFuncMap["date"] = Date
 	beegoTplFuncMap["compare"] = Compare
+	beegoTplFuncMap["substr"] = Substr
 }
 
 // MarkDown parses a string in MarkDown format and returns HTML. Used by the template parser as "markdown"
@@ -39,6 +40,20 @@ func MarkDown(raw string) (output template.HTML) {
 	return
 }
 
+func Substr(s string, start, length int) string {
+	bt := []rune(s)
+	if start < 0 {
+		start = 0
+	}
+	var end int
+	if (start + length) > (len(bt) - 1) {
+		end = len(bt) - 1
+	} else {
+		end = start + length
+	}
+	return string(bt[start:end])
+}
+
 // DateFormat takes a time and a layout string and returns a string with the formatted date. Used by the template parser as "dateformat"
 func DateFormat(t time.Time, layout string) (datestring string) {
 	datestring = t.Format(layout)