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fiona gentryfiona gentry 

Batch Job that takes the first 255 characters from the existing long description field and populates it into the new description field

Dear Friends,
Need a help in writing Batch Job that takes the first 255 characters from the existing long description field and  populates it into the new description field

Basically a batch job to copy first 255 characters from Case_Desc and update it to Case_Desc_255__c

Your help is highly appreciated

Regards,
Fiona
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David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
Would the following code work for you? (replace objectRecord by your ownd object instance)
objectRecord.Case_Desc_255__c = objectRecord.Case_Desc.substring(0,255);

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David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
Would the following code work for you? (replace objectRecord by your ownd object instance)
objectRecord.Case_Desc_255__c = objectRecord.Case_Desc.substring(0,255);
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fiona gentryfiona gentry
Thank you david,sorry for this basic question how do i populate these aspects of batch job  
start execute and finish