From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T15:21:32+09:00
Subject: Re: what's the Ruby way to do this?

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:11:15 +0900, Miles Keaton wrote:

> What's the Ruby way to do this?
> If I want to get the first 10 words from a phrase, followed by "..."?
> Although the following works, I can tell it's just not Rubyish:
> 
>   def snippet(thought)
>     result = ''
>     i = 0
>     thought.split.each do |word|
>       if i < 10
>         result = (result + ' ' + word)
>       end
>       i = (i + 1)
>     end
>     result = result.strip + '...'
>     return result
>   end

def snippet(thought)
  thought.split[0..9].join(" ") + "..."
end

gegroet,
Erik V.