title: laravel blade disable escape with substr method
body: <p>in Laravel 5 I'm trying to disable escaping in a Blade template which currently has the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ substr($v["CONTENT"],0,140)}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried with</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ !! substr($v["CONTENT"],0,140)}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it returns a 1 instead of a substring of text of 140 characters.
  I cannot move the substr functions inside a controller because I'm inside of a loop:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@foreach($articleList as $k =&gt; $v)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>any idea?</p>