From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T10:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: trimming strings

jotto wrote:

> I want to trim the string for the text that comes with each entry in
> the database. Ideally I want to trim it where it first finds <br />. I
> imagine I use a loop to count how many characters I get to before it
> finds <br />? Then I use some function (a function I can't find) that
> trims the string to the desired amount of characters.

Try this: str[0 ... str.index("<br />")]

You probably do it more efficiently with Regexps, but that involves 
getting the multi-line flag right.

Oh, or this: str.split("<br />").first