From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T11:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to truncate strings in Ruby?


On Jul 20, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Marston A. 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
>
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>

@text[0...20]

@text[0, 20]

@text.slice(0, 20)

@text.slice!(0, 20) # modifies @text in place to become it's  
"truncation"