DZone Snippets: plain code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:47:37 GMT DZone Snippets: plain code Elegant way of shorten a text string http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4578 this method shortens a plain text string down to complete words contained in given scope (count) <br /> <br /><code> <br />def shorten (string, count = 30) <br /> if string.length >= count <br /> shortened = string[0, count] <br /> splitted = shortened.split(/\s/) <br /> words = splitted.length <br /> splitted[0, words-1].join(" ") + ' ...' <br /> else <br /> string <br /> end <br />end <br /></code> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:47:15 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4578 labuschin (Martin Labuschin)