TYPO3 Core

It would be nice if cropHTML (and crop) could handle variables as first parameter inside $options. Would take just one additional line of code in root/typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php:

    function cropHTML($content, $options) {
        $options = explode('|', $options);
        // added next line to process $options[0] with insertData and so be able to use variables for cropping length
        $options[0] = $this->insertData($options[0]);        
        $chars = intval($options[0]);

So one could use constants or register values to pass to cropHTML like
tt_content.text.20.cropHTML = {$contentCropLength} | ... | 1
tt_content.text.20.insertData = 1
or
tt_content.text.20.cropHTML = {register:croplength} | ... | 1
tt_content.text.20.insertData = 1