From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-07-09T12:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: truncate a string to first 200 characters


luke wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i've been searching high and low for a method that will help me do this for
> a couple of days, but decided eventually just to post here in the hope
> someone can point out the probably blatantly obvious for me :)
>
> i'm looking for something that can take a string and truncate it to a
> certain amount of characters. then i can add '...' at the end.
>

s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
puts s[0, 6] << '...'

#-> abcdef...


daz