From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-01-07T03:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: html formatted string -displaying only upto specific len

Subashini Kumar wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a string
> 
> str="<p>H<span style="font-family: impact,chicago;">g</span>enrik
> Lundqvist,g<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">gh nv <span
> style="font-family: wingdings,zapf dingbats;">gnm h fsgfb
> g</span></span>the preternaturally handsome Swedish goalie for the New
> York Rangers, may have been named one of test from Neskdufluh on
> december <span style="font-family: symbol;">a</span> 2009</p>"
> 
> i want to display this with the html formatting as mentioned above in
> the string.
> But i want to display only first 15 charatcer.ie 15 characters inclusive
> of spaces and other special charac
> that is ,  i want to display  HgenrikLundqvis .
> But it should be display with all the html formatting as it is in the
> string "str".
> please tell me how to display it like this.

You'll need to parse the HTML to know where the tags begin and end.  Use 
a library such as Nokogiri for that.

You could do a quick-and-dirty approach using regular expressions, but 
it may not be as reliable.

Best,
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