How to display a snippet of a field in Expression Engine

I have a news section on my EE website where a user can add news articles.

The 3 last added articles will be displayed on the homepage with the News title, date and news body copy. Here's my code:

<ul>
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" status="Featured|open" disable="catergories|member_data|pagination" limit="3"}
<li>
<h3><a href="{title_permalink=site/news"}">{title}</a></h3>
<h4>{date}</h4>
<p>{body}</p>
</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

Is there a way I can limit the {body} copy to only display a set a number of characters, so it displays a snippet/section of the text rather than all of it?

Take a look at the EE documentation section on [plugins available for download][1].

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I think "Char Limit" would do what you want, alternatively look at "Word Limit".

Use like so:

{exp:char_limit total="100"}
{body}
{/exp:char_limit}