Change Drupal Views Rows before they were rendered
A custom module which implements hook_views_pre_render() will give your that ability:

&lt;?php
MYMODULE_views_pre_render(&amp;$view) {
  if ($view-&gt;name=='myview') {
    // limit the results to 3
    array_splice($view-&gt;result, 3);

    //other modifications can be done as well:
    foreach($view-&gt;result as $r =&gt; $result) {
      // do something
    }
  }
}


to find a specific row you'll have to code a bit, but that's not drupal related, check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019076/how-to-search-by-key-value-in-a-multidimensional-array-in-php for further informations.