From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T10:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Substring with "..."

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:00:55 -0500, Jose Antonio Parra wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>   I want to know what is the method to take a string and return a
> substring with 20 characters and "..." if the length of the string is
> greater, or the complete string if it's shorter than 20 characters.
> Thanks all.

Are you looking for http://rubyquiz.com/quiz83.html Short But Unique?



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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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