PHP SUBSTRING doesn't work right how do I get it working?

I'm trying to print trimmed results from a database by using a substring.

print "{$row[SUBSTR(gameDescription,1,199)]}";

But it is not working for some reason. If I try and use SUBSTRING instead of SUBSTR it comes up with an error so I must be close to getting it right. How do I fix this so it prints 199 characters instead of 0 characters? Cause right now it doesn't print anything or doesn't come up with any errors in the page so not sure what it could be. Please help thanks:)
 
Back
Top