Truncating a User Profile Field

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I've created a few new user profile fields for my board, and am using the Radio Button/Drop Down hack to select choices.

One of the fields, for people to understand what info I'm looking for (and help them choose), I have to use about 30 characters for each choice.

However, I also want to display this info in the Postbit Template, but the approx 30 characters makes for messy viewing - I want to truncate that 7 characters.

I've been told that it would have to be hacked/hardcoded -

Anybody have an idea of how one might go about making this hack, to truncate that field when being displayed in the postbit template?

Thanks,

Jeff