On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bruno Veldeman wrote:
> I have been looking for a function to truncate a string at a given lenght, but am
>lost.
>
> None of the functions seen to do this, I remember BASIC having A$ =
>left$("1234567890",5).
> Does perl have this function?
>
> What I want is to cut off all strings at a given lenght if the string exeeds it, and
>add ... to them so the user can see it was cut off.
>
> So blablablabla would be blablabl... if cut on 8th position
my $truncated = substr($str, 0, 8) . '...';
See the documentation on substr for more details.
-- Brett
Brett W. McCoy
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Broadsoft, Inc.
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