title: (Razor) String length in Html.Helper?
body: <p>This is a very simple question.</p>
  
  <p>I have a Html.helper:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem =&gt; item.Text)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How to I cut down the string from item.Text to a specific length? I wish you could do a <code>SubString</code> or something directly on the item.Text.</p>
  
  <p>If youre wondering why I want this, its because the strings are very long, and I only want to show a bit of it in like the index view etc.</p>