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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)

   1  
   2  def shorten (string, count = 30)
   3  	if string.length >= count 
   4  		shortened = string[0, count]
   5  		splitted = shortened.split(/\s/)
   6  		words = splitted.length
   7  		splitted[0, words-1].join(" ") + ' ...'
   8  	else 
   9  		string
  10  	end
  11  end
to ruby rails string text word words scope short shorten plain by labuschin on Sep 27, 2007 4 Comments
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