* Cahill, Earl <ecahill at corp.untd.com> [2005/03/15 14:09]: > A start with a line, say > > This line is really too long. > > A length, say 25, and suffix, say '...'. I would like to be able to do > something like this > > [% my_truncate(line, 25, '...') %] > > And end up with > > This line is really t... > > Just wondering if there is something out there that already does this.
The standard truncate filter does this:
$ tpage
[% FILTER truncate(25) %]
This line is really too long.
[% END %]
This line is really t...
See L<Template::Manual::Filters> for details.
(darren)
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