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Elegant way of shorten a text string

this method shortens a plain text string down to complete words contained in given scope (count)

def shorten (string, count = 30)
	if string.length >= count 
		shortened = string[0, count]
		splitted = shortened.split(/\s/)
		words = splitted.length
		splitted[0, words-1].join(" ") + ' ...'
	else 
		string
	end
end
to ruby rails string text word words scope short shorten plain by labuschin on Sep 27, 2007 1 Comments
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