Where Is The <?php the_excerpt(); ?> Function

Well I found out it was in this file:
wp-includes/formatting.php

and I found this function:
function wp_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed

but it doesn’t allow me to put something like:

” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link <?php the_title(); ?>”>

array_push($words, ‘[…]’);

Like I see what I need to do just not sure how I can accomplish it.

I found this plugin here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

But that doesn’t let me add any hyperlink at the end near the […] that makes it clickable.

I guess I’ll keep looking. I guess I’m the only one who thinks this is a problem and misleading to have […] there with nothing hyperlinked saying read more or something like that…?

Just saw you had linked me there also thank you 🙂