From: Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T10:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How to truncate strings in Ruby?

On 7/21/06, Marston A. <marston@marstononline.com> wrote:
> So I'd think this is a very simple question, I've searched around the
> manual and google but couldn't really find it.
>
> So what is the method to truncate a string in Ruby? Similar to the
> truncate(@text, 20) helper method in Rails?  To get the first 20
> characters of a string for example.  Thanks in advanced

Slice it, just remember it's 0 indexed.
s = '0123456789'
s = s[0..4]
=> '01234'

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Phillip Hutchings
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