Limit chars from select

["Gavin Amm" <Gavin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How do I limit the characters a Select statement returns?
In Seudo code:
SELECT * FROM myTable LIMITCHARS 30;

I'm using MySQL.

Thanks.

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