From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T16:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: what's the Ruby way to do this?

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 "..."?

def snippet(thought)
   words = thought.split
   result = words.first(10).join(" ")
   result += "..." if words.size > 10
   return result
end