title: Limit string array output to first 500 characters
body: <p>I'm using Subversion and using <code>svn help status</code> a lot. It spits out a lot of text. How can I tell PowerShell to only display the first 500 characters of the entire output (not of each line)? </p>
  
  <p>The following limits to the first 500 lines not characters.</p>
  
  <pre><code> $ svn help status | select -first 500
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That's because <code>(svn help status).GetType()</code> is an array of strings. Do I need to write something funky to count the characters in each line, or is this a built in way to do this?</p>